>A Really Inconvenient Truth:
>Why Climate Change is Much Worse Than You've Been Told
>and What We Must Do Now
>Dan Miller (BSEE'78)
>
>Dan's presentation will focus on why the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental
>Panel on Climate Change) reports are actually best case scenarios.
>Dan will present a more realistic (and scary) outlook on what will
>happen if we don't start to reduce greenhouse gas emissions soon.
>Dan will then lay out what steps we need to take to address this
>critical situation.
>
>Tuesday, December 2, 2008
>4:30 p.m.
>Phillips Hall, Room 101
>
>
>Dan Miller (BSEE '78) is co-founder and Managing Director of The
>Roda Group, a Berkeley, California-based venture capital group. He
>is the former president of Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com), a past Roda
>Group affiliate company. Dan serves on the boards of a number of
>companies including Solazyme, a company that is growing biofuels
>using algae. Dan co-founded TCSI, a telecom technology company that
>went public in 1991. Before TCSI, he designed communications
>satellite payloads at Hughes Aircraft (now Boeing). Dan is chair of
>the Foundation Board of the Chabot Space and Science Center in
>Oakland, California. At Chabot, Dan is working with Cornellian Bill
>Nye the Science Guy to develop a climate change exhibit geared
>towards kids and their parents. Dan is also a member of Al Gore's
>Climate Project and was trained by Mr. Gore to give the An
>Inconvenient Truth slide show, though Dan's talk is not based on Mr.
>Gore's.
>--
>Elan Shapiro
>Sustainable Tompkins Community Partnership Coordinator
>Sustainable Living Associates, Principal
>Frog's Way B&B
>211 Rachel Carson Way
>Ithaca, NY 14850
>607-275-0249 607-592-8402 Cell
>
>"We must be the change we want to see in the world"
> Mohandas Gandhi
--
Elan Shapiro
Sustainable Tompkins Community Partnership Coordinator
Sustainable Living Associates, Principal
Frog's Way B&B
211 Rachel Carson Way
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-275-0249 607-592-8402 Cell
"We must be the change we want to see in the world"
Mohandas Gandhi
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