Al Gore To Speak At Climate Change-Wine Conference/Barcelona/ Feb. 2008

[RestoreGore]

http://www.decanter.com/news/148315.html?aff=rss

Al Gore to speak on climate change and wine
October 8, 2007

Former US Vice President Al Gore will be the keynote speaker at a 2008 conference devoted to climate change and its impact on wine.

The International Climate Change and Wine conference, the second to be organised by the Wine Academy of Spain, will take place in Barcelona in February 2008.

The roster of speakers includes international consultants Michel Rolland and Dr Richard Smart, and winemakers Miguel Torres of Bodegas Miguel Torres, Ernst Loosen of the Dr Loosen estate in Germany, and Bruno Prats, former owner of Chateau Cos d'Estournel.

Gore, a speaker and champion environmental awareness and author of An Inconvenient Truth and star of the documentary of the same name, will kick off the two-day event on February 15.

The conference will comprise presentations, panels and seminars covering topics associated with oenology and global warming – specifically, the implications for vines, viticulture and wine itself of rising greenhouse gases and UV-B rays. These subjects are among those debated in the November 2007 issue of Decanter magazine.

The first Climate Change and Wine conference was held in 2006, and featured experts like Dr Christian Butzke of Purdue University and Dr David Smart of UC Davis. It attracted 40 journalists from 17 countries.

[rateyes]

1. He's on the same dais with Bill Clinton at a meeting

called "The New Baptist Covenant" the last part of January '08. Jimmy Carter, Lindsay Graham, Charles Grassley, Bill Moyers, Marian Wright Edelman, et al are also on the program as plenary speakers. That's quite a diverse group of politicians, along with some men and women ministers who are going to be there.

http://www.newbaptistcelebration.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=58

[RestoreGore]

2. I'm sure it will be to discuss the climate crisis

As it is also a spiritual issue.

[mmonk]

3. Wish I could go to something like that.

[RestoreGore]

4. Me too.Especially if it includes spanish wine. ;-)

[mmonk]

5. Yep.

Icing on the cake.

[Lisa]

6. the California industry is already getting worried about impacts

They have been sending reps up north to British Columbia to start looking for new vinyard sites. And apparently similar things are happening in the UK (some French growers may need to relocate, in order to stay viable).

[RestoreGore]

7. The whole world is shifting

And much faster than we imagined.

[RestoreGore]

8. Here's a link on the first conference

http://www.winebusiness.com/GrapeGrowing/webarticle.cfm?dataId=43868