And were live this morning awaiting the start on the forum from the center for strategic and international studies. Live coverage should start in a moment. Thank you all for we really appreciate you joining us. Thats better. Thank you all for coming today. Really appreciate you joining us here today. Thanks for coming out this morning. I think weve got a really exciting morning of discussion. First of all, breeief introductions, im Whit Saumweber director of the stephenson ocean security project. And from my point of view, there is no better representation of that nexus than the issue of Climate Change and how its impacting our oceans and what that means for our broader world. A few weeks ago the ipcc released reports taking deeper dives into the effects Climate Change is having on this world. One focused on the impact on lands, and the ocean and the cry owe sphere. That report is fascinating. Its the current state of the science about what we know, what we understand, the impacts of C
We are back with greg collie of the American Vaping Association, and we will talk about the recent Health Concerns related to vaping and ecigarettes, and greg, good morning. Thank you for having me. And lets start out with who does the American Vaping Association represent . Which company . We dont represent any company, and we are a 501 c nonprofit. I began vaping and became an advocate and we are advocating for sensible regulation for vaping product, and we vive the funding from the small and the mediumsized vaping in the industry, and as well as consumers. When you are talking small and mediumsized, the people who make the cigarettes or the vaping products manufacturers, retailers and concerned consumers. Okay. So what is the intended purpose of ecigarettes . Why do they even exist . Sure. The vaping products exist because in 1986 dr. Michael russell said that smokers smoke for the nicotine, but they die from the tar, and die from the smoke. So until these products came out there wa
We will be moving around the state as we can. Banners ofhave our our sponsors up. Different rooms, says as you will see on your tables, you will see the list of our sponsors and the list here. Without them, we cannot do this great series that has taken place for so many years and inrted by our own fred coker 1997. [applause] i know that many of you are saying the same thing as the man with perfect attendance, jim brett, ive never gone to any event he was supposed to be that and was not at. Every new England Council event, he is always there. Today he is unfortunately at a funeral. He is not here today, so larry will do the q a part. We have been training him on this for days on end. [laughter] he is very good. Next week we are back at the institute of politics. A whole series of things coming up in the future. Very excited. We have a very special governor who has come quite a long way this morning. Governor Steve Bullock, montanas former attorney general and was elected montanas 24th g
Finally we found our way here. It is a great location for our series. We will be moving around the state as we can. Banners ofhave our our sponsors up. Different rooms, says as you will see on your tables, you will see the list of our sponsors and the list here. Without them, we cannot do this great series that has taken place for so many years and inrted by our own fred coker 1997. [applause] i know that many of you are saying the same thing as the man with perfect attendance, jim brett, ive never gone to any event he was supposed to be that and was not at. Every new England Council event, he is always there. Today he is unfortunately at a funeral. He is not here today, so larry will do the q a part. We have been training him on this for days on end. [laughter] he is very good. Next week we are back at the institute of politics. A whole series of things coming up in the future. Very excited. We have a very special governor who has come quite a long way this morning. Governor Steve Bul
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