User Tools (skip): December in Montreal, and people are talking
about "hockey stick graphs" — which have nothing to do with the
Montreal Canadiens but instead map climate, population and CO2
emissions over the past millennium. Each shows a long steady
line and, in the last century, a rapid increase, just like a
hockey stick lying flat, with the blade pointing up. Many of the
people discussing the hockey stick graphs are participating in
the United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted in Montreal
from November 28 to December 9 — but the issues around climate
change had an early airing on November 24 at the inaugural Lorne
Trottier Public Science Symposium: Climate Change and Energy.
The symposium, which drew over 400 people to the ballroom of the
New Residence Hall at 3625 Parc, was sponsored by the Faculty of
Science and the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre
(GEC3), with the support of the Trottier Family Foundation. The
event featured short presentations and a discussion by four
internation