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PEN World Voices Festival presents
Weather Report: What Can We Do?
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Cosponsored by NYRB, Fritt Ord Freedom of Expression Foundation & Royal Norwegian Consulate General
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: Assigned by SmartTix
Seat assignments are assigned by the SmartTix, based on the best seat at the time the order is completed.
A major transatlantic conversation about thelatest on global warming, the Copenhagen climate talks, and policy
options for the future.
“What Can We Do?” brings together on one panel some of the premier
scientists and writers from the U.S. and Scandinavia: Frederic Hauge,
founder and director of the international environmental organization
the Bellona Foundation; Bjørn Lomborg, an Adjunct Professor at
Copenhagen Business School and author of the controversial The
Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World and
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming;
Jostein Gaarder, author of the internationally-acclaimed novel Sophie’s
World and creator of the Sophie Prize; Bill McKibben, author of
The End of Nature, Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, and
numerous other books; James Hansen is one of the world’s leading
climatologists and author of Storms of My Grandchildren; and author
and environment journalist Andrew Revkin, whose biography of Chico
Mendes, formed the basis of the documentary film The Burning Season.
Cynthia Rosenzweig is co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate
Change, a body of experts convened by the mayor advising the city on
adaptation for its critical infrastructure. The New York Review of Books editor, Robert Silvers will guide the discussion
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