5:30 - 7:00 pm Keynote Address by Cindy Deacon Williams at the Port Orford Public Library
April 18, 2009:
9:00 am - 10:30 am Sand Dollar Pancake Breakfast in the American Legion Hall
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Booths Open at Community Building
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Luncheon in the American Legion Hall
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Fishing Field Trip to Arizona Beach (30 spaces available on a first come, first serve basis. Sign up at the Welcome Booth. Children must be accompanied by adult.)
Keynote Address:
Facing the Risks of Climate Change: Chance Favors the Prepared Mind
Second Annual Port Orford Water Festival
Keynote Address
by
Cindy Deacon Williams, Senior Fellow
National Center for Conservation Science & Policy
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared that the evidence now is "unequivocal" that the earth's atmosphere and oceans are warming. The IPCC concluded that human activities, including the emission of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases along with land clearing and development, are responsible for most of the warming. Left unchecked, rising global temperatures and the changes in climatic patterns they cause will affect ecological health and undermine economic and social prosperity and security. Although much attention appropriately is being focused on reducing U.S. Greenhouse gas emissions to restabilize the climate, emissions already built-up in the atmosphere will continue to force climate changes for the next fifty years or more. Ms. Williams will discuss the likely consequences of climate change on natural, human, built, and economic systems in southwest Oregon and describe a suite of strategies and policies that will help government, the private sector, and households withstand and adapt to the now unavoidable impacts of climate change.
Scheduled Participants:
Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition
Garrison Lake Restoration Committee
