228-1 Global Climate Change: The Science, the Likely Impacts, and Possible Solutions

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Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 8:10 AM
George R. Brown Convention Center, General Assembly Theater Hall B

Michael E. Mann, Dept. of Meteorology and Earth and Environ. Systems Institute, Penn State University, University Park, PA
Abstract:
This lecture will begin with a review of the now-solid evidence for a human influence on the climate of recent decades. Such evidence includes instrumental measurements available for the past two centuries, paleoclimate observations spanning more than a millennium, and comparisons of the predictions from computer models with observed patterns of climate change. The lecture will then address future likely impacts of human-induced climate change including possible influences on sea level rise, severe weather, and water supply. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of possible solutions to the climate change problem.

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