Climate Change: A Scientist’s Perspective
LENGTH ・ 01:11:25Earth’s climate is changing, as can be seen from measurements of rising air and water temperatures, decreasing amounts of polar ice and rising sea levels worldwide over the past three decades. Human-caused increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, chiefly…
Geoengineering as a Response to Climate Change
LENGTH ・ 01:29:34Speaker: Dale Jamieson, Director of Environmental Studies, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, Environmental Studies Program, New York University Location: McCormick Hall 101 Date/Time: November 16, 2010, 4:30-6 p.m.
Balancing Risks: Nuclear Energy and Climate Change
LENGTH ・ 00:55:38In Balancing Risks: Nuclear Energy & Climate Change, Socolow and Glaser discuss the concept of stabilization wedges, which are defined as strategies motivated by climate change and designed to prevent its full impact by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. A major focus…
Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits and Obstacles
LENGTH ・ 00:6001Claire Kremen (born 1961) is an American biologist, and professor of conservation biology at University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology in 1982, and from Duke University with a PhD in Zoology in 1987.[2] She studies the impacts of deforestation in Madagascar,…
Breaking the Impasse Between the United States and China on Climate Change
LENGTH ・ 00:52:14Kelly Sims Gallagher, Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy. Kelly Sims Gallagher is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She directs the Center for International…
Copenhagen: The Sound and the Fury, Signifying…?
LENGTH ・ 01:04:00Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is the Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School…
The Challenge of Producing More Food and Fewer Greenhouse Gas Emissions
LENGTH ・ 01:00:28Tim Searchinger is a Research Scholar at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He is also Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. Although trained as a lawyer, Searchinger’s work today combines ecology and economics to analyze the challenge of how to…
Interactions Between Climate and Regional Air Quality in the U.S.
LENGTH ・ 01:00:37Interactions Between Climate and Regional Air Quality in the U.S.: How Changing Climate May Affect Smog and How Cleaning Up Smog May Affect Climate Loretta J. Mickley – Senior Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Loretta Mickley co-leads the Atmospheric…
