date: Fri May 25 16:30:41 2007 from: Tim Osborn subject: Fwd: Invitation as Speaker at the Conference Communicating Climate to: Keith Briffa , Phil Jones , "Sarah Raper" , Nathan Gillett Hi IPCC authors... would any of you be interested in a trip to Prague in late September to make a keynote on: "How can we make sure that the public understands basic facts the physical science of climate change?" I'll be declining as it's immediately before my heavy 1st-year teaching begins. But I can suggest an alternative if you want. The attached flyer is interesting, together with the meeting itself, because of the climate sceptical position take very firmly by the current Czech president, who has even written a book on the subject I believe! "Blue, not green planet" by President Vaclav Klaus. At first I thought it might be a meeting for sceptics to support the president's position, but the flyer and the programme of speakers don't give this impression -- indeed it sounds more like they are wanting to criticise their president's position! Let me know if anyone's interested! Tim Reply-To: From: "Eva van de Rakt" To: Cc: "'Anka Dobslaw '" Subject: Invitation as Speaker at the Conference Communicating Climate Science, September 25, 2007, Prague Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:11:46 +0200 Organization: Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung Prag X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: Acee3wKYgzUoAq0rQJqFvM25itK4yg== X-UEA-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-UEA-Spam-Level: / X-UEA-Spam-Flag: NO Dear Tim Osborn, On the occasion of the expert conference "Communicating Climate Science after IPCC - Exchanging Experiences on Communicating Scientific Concepts and Results on Climate Change" we would like to cordially invite you as a main speaker. The conference is organized by the Environmental Centre of the Charles University Prague and the Prague Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation and will take place at the Charles University in Prague on September 25, 2007. Please find the draft concept and programme of the conference attached. We would appreciate if you could share your expert knowledge with the participants in panel no. 1 (9:15-10:45) on the issue: How can we make sure that the public understands basic facts the physical science of climate change? The working language will be English. Please feel free to contact us for further information. Thanks in advance for your answer. Sincerely, Eva van de Rakt Director Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung Spalena 23 110 00 Prague 1 Czech Republic Tel.: +420 251 814 175 Fax: +420 251 814 174 Email: [1]v.d.rakt@boell.cz