Overly political, endlessly complicated...and standing-room only, featured speaker Dr. Philip Mote had a receptive audience for his climate change talk. Coauthor (with 100+ participating scientists) of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report, Mote's humor-filled talk began with the popular representations of climate change and how they affect public perception. The scientific portion focused on a "dialogue with a skeptic" and featured clear evidence (that only lost me on the modeling part). It's not every day you get to hear a Nobel Prize winning scientist speak!