Kerry key speaker at Rice climate change conference (not Condi!! LOL!)

[Luftmensch067]

Sen. John Kerry will deliver the keynote address at a conference focusing on climate change on Feb. 9 at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

The conference, titled "Beyond Science: The Economics and Politics of Responding to Climate Change," will focus on proposed alternative policies such as taxation of carbon, creating pollution credits and other regulations to curtail carbon dioxide emissions.

Conference co-sponsors are Rice, the Energy & Environmental Systems Institute and the Shell Center for Sustainability.

Sen. Kerry's address, titled "The Road from Bali: The Future of American Policy on Global Climate Change," opens the conference at 8 a.m.

Steve Koonin, chief scientist at British Petroleum, will speak at noon, on "Corporate Green House Gas Policies." Timothy Killeen, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, will later discuss the International Panel on Climate Change 2007 Report.

Kerry's appearance at Rice coincides with one of the nation's most influential energy industry conferences, CERAWeek, which begins in Houston on Feb. 11.

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[karynnj]

1. Nice, I hope it is taped.

[wisteria]

2. Me too. I hope it is taped. n/t