Expert to Lecture on Global Climate Change and Policy Response
Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider will discuss the risks posed by a warming planet during the Southern Arizona Geography Association's annual meeting.
Nationally known climatologist Stephen Schneider will lecture at The University of Arizona on global climate change and public policy. The event is sponsored by graduate students in the geography and regional development department as part of the annual Southern Arizona Geography Association meeting.
Schneider is a professor in the biological sciences department at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for International Studies. He also is co-director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford and the founder and editor of the journal Climatic Change.
Schneider won a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the so-called "genius award," in 1992 and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He’s the author or co-author of more than 450 scientific papers and books on climate change.
Schneider says the climate change debate, along with its policy components, “falls clearly into the post-normal science characterization and will likely remain there for decades, which is the minimum amount of time it will take to resolve some of the larger remaining uncertainties surrounding it, like climate sensitivity levels and the likelihood of abrupt nonlinear events, including a possible shutoff of the Gulf Stream in the high North Atlantic.”
He says local, regional, and international actions are already beginning and much more could be done if there were political will to substantially reduce the magnitude of the risks.
The lecture and the reception that follows are free and open to the public.
Sponsors include:
- Geosciences department
- Ecology and evolutionary biology department
- Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
- Soil, water and environmental science department
- Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
- TRIF Water Sustainability
- Arid Lands Studies
- Atmospheric sciences department
- Graduate College
- Laboratory of Tree Ring Research
- College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- School of Natural Resources
- Graduate Professional Student Council
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- What | Lecture: "Global Warming: Is the Science Settled Enough For Policy?"
- When | March 27, 3:30 p.m.
- Where | Student Union, Gallagher Theater
- Extra Info |
A discussion and reception will follow at 5 p.m. in the Student Union, Presidio Room. The event is free and open to the public.