Opening Remarks: Welcoming the Panel (Mike Hirshfield, Moderator) Speaker #1, Michael Lemonick, Climate Central , formerly with Time Magazine Communicating about Climate Change There is an important role that magazines and publishers play in helping to improve AmericaÕs science literacy. Only 48% believe there is a scientific consensus on climate change happening. TIME magazine has […]
2009 Blue Vision Summit
Keynote, Dr. Roger Payne
Global Warming and Climate Change and Whales Dr. Payne addressed a long list of various problems related to environment: coastal pollution, dead zones, fish diseases, removal of wildlife from the seas, invasive species, removal of top of the food chain species, plastic pollution , noise pollution, ghost nets, long lines, destruction of coral reefs, acidification, […]
2009 Summit
From March 7 to March 10 of 2009, the second Blue Vision Summit gathered some four hundred people from over two hundred ocean organizations in Washington DC, ranging in size from a two-diver outfit working on removing abandoned fishing nets off the sea bottom in California to the National Geographic Society, New England Aquarium, UNEP […]
Agenda
2009 BLUE VISION SUMMIT 7-10 March 2009
Summit Program
Download the 2009 Blue Vision Summit program here.