Challenging Climate Post Copenhagen

India International Centre & Liberty Institute Cordially invite you to a discussion on Challenging Climate Post Copenhagen

Chair: Prof MGK Menon, former minister for science, and chair person of IIC.
Speakers:
Dr Fred Singer - Science of global warming
Dr Benny Peiser - Policy options post Copenhagen
Commentators:
Dr Prodipto Ghosh, senior distinguished fellow TERI, advisor to government of India on climate change policy, former secretary Ministry of Environment & Forest
Dr Dev Raj Sikka, former director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

Date: 23 February 2010 Time: 5.30 to 8 pm Venue: India International Centre, (Conference Room 1, main building), Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003.

Programme:

5.30 pm: Tea

6.00 pm: Welcome and introductions

6.10 pm: Presentations by Dr Fred Singer

6.30 pm: Presentation by Dr Benny Peiser

6.50 pm: Comments by Dr Dev Raj Sikka

7.00 pm: Comments by Dr Prodipto Ghosh

7.10 pm: Questions and Answers

7.45 pm: Chairman’s remarks by Prof MGK Menon

7.55 pm: Vote of thanks

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Dr. S. Fred Singer is one of the most distinguished scientists in the U.S. He organized and chaired the NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change) and was lead author of its summary report "Nature, not human activity, rules the climate." He co-authored its full report "Climate Change Reconsidered" [2009] www.NIPCCreport.org.

In the 1960s, Dr Singer established and served as the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, now part of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and earned a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for his technical leadership. In the 1980s, Singer served for five years as vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA) and became more directly involved in global environmental issues. Since retiring from the University of Virginia and from his last federal position as chief scientist of the Department of Transportation, Singer founded and directed the nonprofit Science and Environmental Policy Project. www.SEPP.org

Dr Benny Peiser is the Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (London) and the editor of CCNet, the world's leading climate policy network. He is the co-editor of the journal Energy and Environment, a scientific advisor to the Lifeboat Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. A 10km-wide asteroid, Minor Planet (7107) Peiser, was named in his honour by the International Astronomical Union. The recently established Global Warming Policy Foundation is chaired by Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK. http://www.thegwpf.org/

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