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Speakers
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Title
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Sep 26
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4:00p
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The group
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Introductions and
general discussion
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This
first session will be focused on introductions, gathering ideas for
subsequent sessions, as well as general discussion. We look
forward to having time for open discussion as there have been an array
of climate policy related developments since our last session in the
spring -- including new science, debates over attribution of
hurricanes, and the announcement of the Governor's greenhouse gas
targets for California. Also, please come with ideas for what you'd
like to discuss this semester and any suggestions for potential
speakers.
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Oct 17
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5:00p
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Garrett Fitzgerald
ICLEI
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ICLEI and Cities
for Climate Protection
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In
this session I'll describe ICLEI's role in U.S. climate change work,
focusing on our Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) campaign.
Over 160 local jurisdictions in the U.S. are providing significant
leadership toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions as CCP
participants. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is an
international membership association of local governments dedicated to
achieving tangible improvements in global environmental conditions
through the cumulative actions of local governments.
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Oct 31
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4:00p
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open
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Nov 14
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4:00p
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John Harte
ERG and ESPM
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Feedbacks in the
climate system
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Missing from
current climate models are feedback mechanisms coupling climate and
ecosystems. Results from analysis of past climate change, from ongoing
climate manipulations in ecosystems, and from observations of
ecosystems along climate gradients suggest that climate-ecosystem
feedbacks could be large and positive, and thus future warming may be
considerably more intense than is currently anticipated.
Nevertheless, there are huge gaps in our understanding of future
ecosystem responses to global warming.
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| Nov 28 |
4:00p |
Barbara Haya
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Fox News and PBS
climate specials
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We
will be viewing two recent television specials: a Fox News Channel
presention "The Heat is On: The Case of Global Warming" and a PBS
special called “Global Warming: the Signs and the Science”.
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