Climate Change: Prospects for Nature

Friday, September 15, 2006, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium at the AXA Equitable Center
787 Seventh Avenue (corner of West 51st Street), Manhattan
For more information, visit www.nybg.org or call 718.817.8747.

Hear from Al Gore and leading scientists and experts on the
critical issue of climate change.

Climate change is rapidly being acknowledged as the most important environmental issue of our time.  Although it can feel like an overwhelming and uncontrollable problem, there is much we can do.

This special half-day symposium will present the science behind climate change and bring together an impressive roster of participants with a broad spectrum of interests. Eminent scientists will present fresh, relevant scientific data. Panelists will provide context and perspective. And Al Gore’s keynote address will set forth powerful evidence that this bout of climate change is not merely part of natural cycles.

Hear from scientists, public policy makers, environmental advocates, and journalists, who will discuss the most current scientific data on compelling questions such as:

• What is the scientific evidence for global warming?
• How is climate change affecting our food supply, plants, and ecosystems?
• What innovative solutions can science suggest?

The symposium has been organized by The New York Botanical Garden and Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ph.D., editor of Climate Change and Biodiversity, an important work containing the most recent scientific research and thinking on global warming.

Featured Speaker and Moderator
Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ph.D.
President, Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment;
Editor, Climate Change and Biodiversity

Additional Speakers
• Cameron P. Wake, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Climate Change Research Center, University of New Hampshire
• David W. Wolfe, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Ecology, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University
• Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the series “The Climate of Man,” published by The New Yorker

Panel of Experts
• Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., Director of the Climate and Air Program at Environmental Defense
• Stephen B. Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• Adam Markham, Executive Director and Founder of Clean Air–Cool Planet
• Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

Keynote Speaker
• The Honorable Al Gore
Former Vice President of the United States; author, An Inconvenient Truth

I have read and listened to the world’s leading scientists
. . . the world is witnessing mounting and undeniable
evidence that nature’s cycles are profoundly changing.
— Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth

Seating is limited, so register early.

For more information, visit www.nybg.org or call 718.817.8747.