[Aqualist] Informing the Future by Understanding the Past

[Tim Barrows]

From: Chris Turney <turneychris at gmail.com>

You are invited to attend the following session at "Climate Change: Global
Risks, Challenges and Decisions" (10-12 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark):
Informing the Future by Understanding the Past. Session convenors: Bette
Otto-Bliesner and Chris Turney.

Please be aware, the abstract deadline is Monday 1 September 2008
(<http://www.climatecongress.ku.dk/>www.climatecongress.ku.dk).

Session summary: The past can play a tremendously important role in
helping us understand future climate change. This session will invite
reports on the latest reconstructions, from data and from modeling, of
periods of past climate change that can provide important lessons about
the nature, links and causes of climate change at the continental and
global scales (e.g. Eemian, Holocene Climatic Optimum) and/or human
responses to
variability (past civilizations or cultures). Contributions are invited
from any part of the globe and dealing with any aspect of climate change
and/or archaeological response.

Congress Purpose: The Danish Government as host of the UN Conference on
Climate Change (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 has
asked International Alliance of Research Universities to organise this
conference as part of the run-up to the COP 15. All findings will be
compiled in a book on climate change, and an executive summary with the
main findings from the congress will, after agreement with the Danish
Government, be handed over to policy makers at the COP15 in Copenhagen at
the end of 2009.

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Professor Chris Turney

Author of Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past
Popular science website:
www.christurney.com
Journal of Quaternary Science Asian and Australasian Regional Editor

School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources
The University of Exeter
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