I've just got back from my tour of southern WA.
The first of my lectures was in Dunsborough. Despite my aprehension that complacency and other priorities would result in me talking to myself, about 25 people turned up for this event. We even had a good smattering of people who asked intelligent questions about the science behind climate change which gave me the opportunity to fine tune my skills at winning over an audience.
The area of greatest scepticism was reserved for the question of the degree to which human activity was contributing to climate change.
I must admit that I was tipped off that this would come up, so I had prepared a couple of new slides for this occurence.
I've taken the liberty to show these below for those interested. I think that the data is pretty compelling.
On Wednesday night we held a similar session in Albany and were thrilled with the turnout of more than 50 people. When you consider that we were up against Spicks and Specks and the Chasers, we thought that the result was very respectable.
We even had a visit from the Greens Upper House MP for the Southwest, Paul Llewellyn, who contributed to a lively discussion.
Based on the success of these two meetings, I've now scheduled sessions throughout the metropolitan area over the next two weeks. Please check out the schedule - I'd love to see you at one of the sessions.
Let me say a BIG THANK YOU to those who helped make these talks a success. To Bob Hadlow who provided moral support and drove me around so that I could do e-mails and phone calls. To Nathan, Celie, Tim and Georgia Hadlow who provided great support in Albany. And to Dick and Val Schonnel, John and Eleanor Slee and Leslie and Chris Fulston who provided my "rent-a-crowd" in Dunsborough and helped out with the delivery of refreshements and subsequent clean up. THANKS!!