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A new generation for change

26 March 2008

Dr Graeme Pearman presents issues to an international discussion on climate change on behalf of the Monash Science Centre.

Monash Science Centre partnered with a local school, Camelot Rise Primary School, paleo-reconstruction artist Peter Trusler (who scored the cover of Time Magazine in 1993) and climate scientist Graeme Pearman for an international video conference to discuss global warming.

The video conference was organised by IGLO (International Action on GLObal Warming) an international organisation of science centres and museums dedicated to furthering the public understanding of science.

Science centres in the United States, China, Portugal, Wales, Mexico and Egypt took part in the web cast.  A live audience was also invited to listen to presentations and perform demonstrations.

Monash Climate expert Dr Graeme Pearman summed up the threat of climate change this way:

"This science tells us that the world's climate is changing and that the change is primarily because of an increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to human activities. We are changing the climate."

"Very recent science suggests that climate change may be happening faster than we expected and that we and other species on the planet are more vulnerable to change than we thought. This is now forcing serious consideration of rapid responses by all nations as we work to tackle this shared problem.

"Challenges in this quest include a general community lack of appreciation of the significance of what appears to be small shifts in global average temperature, incompleteness of the knowledge-base and the need to respond using risk management."