Green Options » climage conference http://greenoptions.com/tag/climage-conference Posts tagged 'climage conference' Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en How a Random Guy Trumped the Greatest Minds from China and the USA on Climate Change http://ecoworldly.com/2008/08/02/how-a-random-guy-trumped-the-greatest-minds-from-china-and-the-usa-on-climate-change/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/08/02/how-a-random-guy-trumped-the-greatest-minds-from-china-and-the-usa-on-climate-change/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:22:03 +0000 Gavin Hudson http://ecoworldly.com/2008/08/02/how-a-random-guy-trumped-the-greatest-minds-from-china-and-the-usa-on-climate-change/ Someone ThinkingIn May of 2006, I had the chance to attend the China-US Climate Change Forum hosted by the University of California at Berkeley. To an eco-geek, the list of speakers was star-studded with Nobel laureates, professors from top universities, famous innovators, and leaders from the business communities in China and the United States. The conference opened with the premier of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, just before it hit theaters. Before a university worker’s strike altered plans, Al Gore himself was slated to join the stage.

But it was a random guy in the audience who stole the show with a single insightful comment in the closing moments.

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