Second Life Simulcasts from UD: Global Agenda and International Polar Year
Event Series: Global Agenda 2008 - International Politics of Climate Change
Title of Event: New Politics for New Weather
Guest Speaker: John Byrne - Climate/Energy Policy Nobel Laureate
Date and time: Wednesday April 9, 2008, 4:30 P.M. SLT
Location: University of Delaware island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/141/227/30
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Event Information: International experts on climate change have concluded with near certainty that climate changes could bring disastrous consequences within the next century, unless the nations of the world reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere. But that conclusion has not yet led political leaders to make the difficult policy decisions necessary to cope with the climate change challenge. How should individual citizens behave? What should big businesses do? How can governments create incentives for innovation and energy changes needed to deal with climate change? Political decisions must accompany the scientific conclusions being reached about climate change.
“New Politics for New Weather” is the topic of Dr. John Byrne’s talk in the University of Delaware’s “Global Agenda” foreign policy series on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 7:30pm, called “Boiling Point: international politics of climate change.” As a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Byrne shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the panel and former Vice President Al Gore. Byrne directs the University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. Moderated by former CNN world affairs correspondent and UD distinguished journalist in residence Ralph Begleiter.
Web Site:http://www.udel.edu/global/
Podcasts of previous Global Agenda speakers: http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/
Event Series: International Polar Year
Title of Event: Dramatic Changes in Earth's Polar Ice: Are We Waking Sleeping Giants?
Guest Speaker: Waleed Abdalat head of the Cryospheric Sciences Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Date and time: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:30 p.m. SLT
Location: University of Delaware island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/141/227/30
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Event Information: This is a simulcast of a live presentaion.Waleed Abdalati , who is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on the study of global climate change, will highlight the critical role that ice plays in shaping our environment and what the loss of ice cover may mean for life on Earth. The presentation will be enhanced by stunning animations produced by NASA.
For more detailed information on this event and the International Polar Year, please visit the web sites listed below.
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/mar/ice032108.html