Forum on Climate Change

The principle speakers will be:

1. Dr. George Jacobson, Professor Emeritus, University of Maine at Orono in Biology, Ecology and Climate Change, Maine State Climatologist, Former Director of the Maine Climate Center at University of Maine at Orono, Editor in Chief of the Report to the Governor on "Maine's Climate Future" (revised 2009)
2. Dr. Patrick Michaels, widely published former research professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007), author of Meltdown (2004), and currently Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute

Each speaker will present a half-hour summary of the current scientific status of climate change.  Topics will include the implications of the "Climate-Gate" scandal, The "Hockey Stick" graph, the current reliability of predictions on sea level rise along the coast of Maine and premised on the story-line scenarios offered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its fourth assessment (2007.)  Concluding assessments will bear on the reliability of FEMA projections for the next one hundred years on the Coast of Maine and their policy implications for Maine.  Conclusions urged by the participants will be followed by their reflections of the position of the other.

Before opening the floor to general questions from the audience, the moderator will address questions selected earlier from the audience.

Refreshments will be served.