Event Title
The Science of Climate Change: A Settled Matter?
Description
Understanding the human impact on the Earth’s climate is one of the most pressing and complex scientific questions of this time. While our understanding of climate dynamics is improving, those opposing immediate action on climate change often point to scientific uncertainty to bolster their arguments. In some cases, the science is largely settled, but many key climate feedback mechanisms are poorly understood. This leaves global humanity with immense ethical questions about how to decide what risk of climate change is tolerable and who will bear the brunt of preventing the change or adapting to it.
About the Lecturer: Jack Herring, Dean of Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, WWU
Document Type
Event
Start Date
15-1-2014 12:00 PM
End Date
15-1-2014 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Global environmental change; Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on; Climatic changes--Risk assessment; Climatic changes--Social aspects
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Climate change, Climate feedback mechanisms
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
The Science of Climate Change: A Settled Matter?
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Understanding the human impact on the Earth’s climate is one of the most pressing and complex scientific questions of this time. While our understanding of climate dynamics is improving, those opposing immediate action on climate change often point to scientific uncertainty to bolster their arguments. In some cases, the science is largely settled, but many key climate feedback mechanisms are poorly understood. This leaves global humanity with immense ethical questions about how to decide what risk of climate change is tolerable and who will bear the brunt of preventing the change or adapting to it.
About the Lecturer: Jack Herring, Dean of Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, WWU
