www.carlton-uca.org/australia-dreaming/ What I believe and why … Mostly what we believe is revealed in our actions, in what we do with our lives. In this series of conversations we ask some people doing interesting things with their life to reflect on what an initiative of it is that makes them do what they do and be the kind of DREAMING people they are. This 'What I Believe and Why' series will introduce us to people 2011 series driven by a wide range of beliefs. Perhaps over time a pattern will emerge. Of course the aim is not simply to come along Carlton Conversations @ The Clare and listen to speakers. It is to engage in a conversation and inevitably we will discover more about ourselves as well as What I believe and why … what we learn from our presenters. We hope their stories and conversations will stimulate your imagination and animate our action. This initial series of Carlton conversations will focus on individual beliefs. In 2011 there will be a series of conversations about cultural issues of interest to people in Carlton and in the City RATHDOWNE ST of RATHDOWNEMelbourne. ST PALMERSTON ST PALMERSTON ST

Carlton Conversations @ The Clare 2011 Thursday 21 July Sunny Chen Queen’s College Chaplain Thursday 18 August Professor David Karoly Australian Climatologist at the University of Queen’s College Chaplain Sunny Chen –  minimising dangerous , society transforms Thursday 21 July to use low or zero carbon renewable energy sources, with “I believe in a God who transforms people. And I much reduced future climate change. This transformation believe that the essence of the Christian faith is best of our society is possible using technologies available now expressed through transformed lives, instead of mere but it requires concerted action from government, business religious dogma. In our society, which sees faith as and communities. Delay in acting to reduce carbon dioxide largely irrelevant, I believe that there is a thirst for emissions is consciously deciding to make the problem transformation that lies deep within many.” worse. I believe that society will respond to this great challenge, and choose the latter path.” Come and converse with Sunny Chen about his beliefs and why … Come and converse with Professor David Karoly about his beliefs and why … Sunny is a Uniting Church Minister. He became Chaplain of Queen’s College () in 2009. Previously he was a secondary school teacher Prof. David Karoly is an internationally recognised expert in climate change in Hong Kong before his theological training in the United States. Since he arrived and climate variability. He is also a Leader, Climate Change theme, Melbourne in Melbourne eleven years ago, Sunny has been a youth worker and a parish Sustainable Society Institute. minister of several Uniting Church congregations, including Mulgrave & Wheelers Karoly has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Hill Uniting Church. Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 (awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with ) and is a member of the faculty of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Professor David Karoly – Australian Climatologist at the University of Melbourne Prior to his current position at University of Melbourne, Prof. Karoly was a Thursday 18 August professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology. He was Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology at “I believe that climate change due to human activity will from 1995 to 2000. have profound impacts on modern society and our way Karoly has been awarded a doctorate in Meteorology from the University of of life. The development of modern society has been Reading. based on energy from fossil fuels and on land clearing for agriculture, but we have disposed of the waste, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. We are now starting to see Venue: Clare Castle Hotel, Carlton www.theclarecastle.com some of the costs associated with the adverse impacts of When: 6pm for 6:30pm—8pm climate change due to increasing carbon dioxide, and these will grow dramatically in the future. Where: 421 Rathdowne Street, CARLTON Tickets: $25 ($15 student/concession) I believe that decisions we make this decade will determine which of two very different paths our society includes dinner will follow. On one path, business as usual, energy and conversation driving our society continues to be provided mainly from fossil fuels, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to grow, and there are ever increasing impacts from weather and climate extremes, including more heat waves, more bush fires, more flooding and more coastal inundation. On the alternative path, aimed at

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