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The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum at the University of California, Berkeley. It will bring together invited leaders from the Chinese and American scientific, business, policy and non-profit communities to discuss global climate crisis solutions and to spur new research. Former U.S. President Al Gore will make a special presentation.

8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 23, and Wednesday, May 24.

Al Gore’s talk is at 7:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, 23rd)

The majority of the conference will be held at Wheeler Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley. The presentation by Al Gore will be at Zellerbach Auditorium on campus. A map is online here.
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Prepared by the Fiscal Affairs Department (In consultation with other departments) and approved by Teresa Ter-Minassian,Director, Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund this report was public announced at February 2008. It affects various topics, related to the climate change, there are financial statement, the potential role of the Fund in addressing them, several related to our previous themes like projects runt by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, few new to us initiatives of the World Economic Outlook (WEO), fossil fuels, bio fuels, the campaign for reducing the Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon dioxide and many many others, that you may know from our pages. Check this full report here (pdf).
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We Said WHAT? Assembly Bill 32 today at Sacramento! The seminar series for non-specialists on the science, technology and policy aspects of climate change that should start today, May 22nd 2008 at 12:00 PM should be presented by:

Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis
John Muir Institute of the Environment, UC Davis
UC Davis Air Quality Research Center
UC Institute for Research on Climate Change and its Societal Impacts

For more info, contacts: Prof. Terry Nathan (trnathan@ucdavis.edu) Dr. Philip Duffy (pduffy@llnl.gov)

Discovery of a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards in Antarctica, evidence of an old eruption by a still active volcano that researchers says might be contributing to the thinning of Antarctic glacial ice was announced at the beginning of the week.

This story is related to the recently published discovery of the volcanic layer in the journal Nature Geoscience by Hugh F.J. Corr and David G. Vaughan, two scientists with the British Antarctic Survey.
As Dr. Vaughan said “This is the first time we have seen a volcano beneath the ice sheet punch a hole through the ice sheet.”

The volcano’s heat could possibly melting and thinning the ice and raising the speed of the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica after two millennia of snow rain covering the volcanic layer, but recent radar surveys found it. As Hugh F.J. Corr and David G. Vaughan continues, the radar teams discovered the layer in 2004 and 2005, but the reflected radar waves from the layer are so strong they thought it was actual bedrock.

In case the Pine Island Glacier may be thinning because of the volcano, it’s highly unusual to point the the thinning of Antarctica’s ice sheet as a result of hidden volcanoes and probably You know that Antarctica has few active volcanoes and some glacial scientists, like Dr. Vaughan blame warmer ocean waters for glacial thinning in the area of West Antarctica.

The scientists discovered was most likely dated to ” around the time of Alexander the Great “. The eruption would have exploded upwards, pushing through hundreds of meters of ice, spraying ash and volcanic glass shards all over the land surrounding it.
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The Land Use Subgroup of the Climate Action Team’s (LUSCAT) draft submission to the Air Resources Board and the 2008 Haagen Smit Symposium proceedings that will be discussed at a May 14th public meeting in Sacramento are now available and you can read them.

The LUSCAT report can now be found at this link: www.climatechange.ca.gov/luscat/meetings.html

The 2008 Haagen Smit Symposium proceedings can be found at this link: www.arb.ca.gov/planning/hsmit2008/hsmit2008.htm

The May 14th meeting is being conducted to provide interested stakeholders the opportunity to ask specific questions concerning various elements of the LUSCAT’s draft report and Haagen Smit Symposium proceedings in order to prepare for submitting written comments on the two documents by May 21, 2008. The meeting is open to the public and full participation by all parties is encouraged.

This meeting will be held at California Energy Commission Headquarters in Sacramento and will also be webcast. Viewers can ask questions during the session via the telephone. The webcast link is posted at: www.energy.ca.gov/webcast/index.html

A call-in phone number for the audio portion of the webcast can be found on the agenda posted with the report and workshop notice at: www.climatechange.ca.gov/luscat/meetings.html
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