Workshop Proceedings Complete
). The report provides a summary of the presentations, courtyard cafe sessions, recommendations, and resources available to communities. Please take a few moments from your busy schedules to review these proceedings that capture many of the views and opinions provided by participants.Al Gore’s Climate Change Movie Makes it to Prince George
Nurturing Doubt About Climate Change is Big Business
"Nurturing doubt about climate-change science has become big business for public-relations companies and lobbyists south of the border. Between 2000 and 2003, ExxonMobil alone gave more than $8.6-million (U.S.) to think tanks, consumer groups and policy organizations engaged in anti-Kyoto messaging, according to the company’s own records. Those groups promote the minority of scientists who still dispute the World Meteorological Society’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consensus on climate change, creating the appearance of widespread scientific disagreement." Full article.
Royal BC Museum - MAPS
The Royal BC Museum’s map series on projected climate scenarios illustrate how BC’s landscape may look over the next 80 years. They are accessible on the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) website.
Who’s Who on the Climate Change Scene?
A list of climate change adaptation resources for communities has been posted as a webpage to the McGregor site. This list was adapted from the handout distributed by Robin Sydneysmith at the Communities and Climate Change: Planning for Impacts and Adaptations workshop held in Prince George, May 17th, 2006. By no means is the list complete, and if you would like to add your organization or project, please email us.
Communities Weathering Change: Is the Coast Clear?
Date: October 5-6, 2006.
Location: Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel, Richmond, BC
"You are invited to the Coastal Community Network’s 12th Annual Conference of Coastal Communities. Join other representatives of BC’s coastal communities, local government, the federal and provincial governments, industry and non-profit sectors, and help us to work towards solutions for economic diversification and long-term community sustainability." CCIARN BC is hosting a climate change panel at this meeting. For details and registration, please visit the Network’s website.
If We Snooze, Do We Lose?
Date: September 29, 2006.
Location: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
This forum will bring together climate change specialists and community members from a wide range of sectors in the Thompson-Nicola-Shuswap to learn about climate change impacts and areas of potential vulnerability, particularly with respect to implications for water and shorelines. The registration form and agenda will be posted shortly on the Federation of BC Naturalists website: http://www.naturalists.bc.ca. To be put on the mailing list for further information, contact: Sarah Weaver Kipp, The Living by Water Project: (250) 832-7405, or email: shorelines@jetstream.net
