EDITOR'S COMMENT:

Here are three of the best, most comprehensive and up-to-date audio reports I have run across on climate change.

The first is a talk given by Jim Garrison on May 11th of this year; the second an interview with Jim Garrision that was conducted by Russ Volckmann of Integral Leadership review (also in May); and the last a series of reports that the CBC broadcast in February of this year.

I have reported on all three of these reports in previous emails, but thought I would bundle them together in one power-packed message. They are not for the faint of heart. Unlike most mainstream coverage, these three reports make no attempt to sugar-coat the very bad news that continues to emerge on multiple climate change fronts.

--- David Sunfellow

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WORLD FORUM PRESENTATION BY JIM GARRISON ON CLIMATE CHANGE
May 11, 2009

Listen to presentation here.

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JIM GARRISON: INTEGRAL POLITICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Russ Volckmann interviews Jim Garrison
Integral Leadership Review
May 2009

Listen to interview here.

Jim Garrison is one of the Directors of State of the World Forum. He became President and Chairman of Wisdom University on February 2, 2005. Garrison is also founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA, which set the stage for the establishment in 1995 of the State of the World Forum, a San Francisco based non-profit institution created to establish a global network of leaders dedicated to creating a more sustainable global civilization. With President Gorbachev as its Convening Chairman, the Forum convenes leaders from around the world and a spectrum of disciplines to its annual and regional conferences and has catalyzed the creation of several independent organizations.

Garrison was born in China and grew up in Taiwan. After returning to the US, he began college at Pepperdine University (1969-70), attended the University of Tel Aviv in 1972, and received a B.A. magna cum laude in World History from the Santa Clara University (1973). He then received a double M.T.S. in Christology and History of Religion from Harvard Divinity School (1975); and a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University (1982). Garrison published his first book in 1980, The Plutonium Culture (SCM). This was followed by The Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima (SCM/1982); The Russian Threat: Myths and Realities (Gateway Books/ 1983); The New Diplomats (Resurgence Press/1984); Civilization and the Transformation of Power (Paraview Press/2000); and America As Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? (Barrett Koehler/2004). Garrison is also active in Mosaic Networks, a business development company of which he is a Founding Partner.

For more information about the November 2009 State of the World Forum in Washington,D.C. click here:

http://www.worldforum.org/

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CBC CLIMATE WAR PODCASTS

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/podcast.html

Global warming is moving much more quickly than scientists thought it would. Even if the biggest current and prospective emitters -- the United States, China and India -- were to slam on the brakes today, the earth would continue to heat up for decades. At best, we may be able to slow things down and deal with the consequences, without social and political breakdown. Gwynne Dyer examines several radical short- and medium-term measures now being considered -- all of them controversial.

Climate Wars - Part One (MP3)

Climate Wars - Part Two (MP3)

Climate Wars - Part Three (MP3)

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