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<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:72pt" lang="EN-AU">Climate Change</span></b></font></p>
<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:27pt" lang="EN-AU">Is there Hope? Is Soil Carbon the Answer?</span></b></font></p>
<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:22pt" lang="EN-AU">Open Forum-Wednesday 8<sup>th</sup> April </span></b><b><span style="font-size:22pt" lang="EN-AU">5:15pm-6:45pm</span></b><b><span style="font-size:22pt" lang="EN-AU"></span></b></font></p>
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<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><u><span style="font-size:20pt" lang="EN-AU">Venue</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:20pt" lang="EN-AU"></span></u></font></p>
<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:14pt" lang="EN-AU">ANU-Fenner School of Environment &
Society, Building 48 upstairs in Room 103,</span></b></font></p>
<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:15pt" lang="EN-AU">Wednesday
8<sup>th</sup> April 2009</span></b><b><span style="font-size:15pt" lang="EN-AU"></span></b></font></p>
<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:15pt" lang="EN-AU">5:15pm-6:45pm</span></b><b><span style="font-size:15pt" lang="EN-AU"></span></b></font></p>
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<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:22pt" lang="EN-AU">What’s On?</span></b></font></p>
<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:justify"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-AU">An interactive forum by Walter Jehne, a member of Climate Action </span><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-AU">Canberra</span><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-AU"> & former CSIRO scientist. </span><b><span style="font-size:18pt" lang="EN-AU">Walter
will present findings of research which goes beyond the current dominant
climate change consensus.</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-AU"> He
will demonstrate the gaps, open new options and outline potential safe
solutions.</span></font></p>
<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:justify"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-AU">Don’t believe it? I didn’t either. Tim Flannery does. So come see for
yourself</span><span style="font-size:14pt" lang="EN-AU">. <span> </span></span></font></p>
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<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:20pt" lang="EN-AU">A 30min presentation will be followed by a
90min discussion with a strong emphasis on open critical debate </span></b></font></p>
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<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:justify"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-AU">The bad news is that it may be far too late to prevent climate meltdown
by just reducing future carbon emissions, irregardless of the level. </span><b><span style="font-size:18pt" lang="EN-AU">The
good news is that we may still be able to avoid meltdown if we ‘cool’ climates
and rapidly draw down past emissions. By widespread reforestation we may still
be able to enhance cloud albedo and cooling and sequester carbon in biomass and
soils to hopefully meet our daunting climate stabilisation challenge, in time.</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-AU"> </span></font></p>
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<p style="border:medium none;padding:0cm;text-align:justify"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:16pt" lang="EN-AU">So come along, bring someone, get informed and take action to help
address this fundamental urgent challenge. To do so we need open critical
analysis and debate so come along and contribute to an insightful, rich &
rigorous discussion.</span></font></p>
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<font size="1"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-AU">For more information</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-AU"> contact Bindu Johnson on 0416 139 487 or <a href="mailto:johnson.bindu@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnson.bindu@gmail.com</a></span><br clear="all">
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