Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Videos, Wed, Feb 15th, 2012
In this evidence-based presentation, climate scientist Anthony Janetos makes it clear that climate change isn’t some future abstraction, nor is it a far-off phenomenon happening to people in other parts of the world. Rather, there are real and substantial ongoing impacts happening here in the United States that affect people’s lives, the economy, the environment, and our valuable natural resources.
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| Speaker: Anthony C. Janetos Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute Download: Presentation (ppt) | Video (high resolution) Anthony Janetos is currently a laboratory fellow in the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He was appointed director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute in October 2006 and previously served as vice president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, where he directed the center’s Global Change Program. He has written and spoken widely to policy, business and scientific audiences on the need for scientific input and scientific assessment in the policy-making process, and about the need to understand the scientific, environmental, economic and policy linkages among the major global environmental issues. Janetos has served on several national and international study teams and has been co-chair of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. He also was an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry, the Global Biodiversity Assessment and was coordinating lead author in the recently published Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He is currently a member of the National Research Council Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space. Janetos has a BS in biology from Harvard University and earned both his MS and PhD in biology from Princeton University. For more information, please click here. Editor’s note: these eight videos comprise a recent “Climate Science 101″ short course sponsored jointly by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), at George Mason University, and NOAA. The presenters in this series were selected for their subject matter expertise. Their views and opinions are their own and don’t necessarily represent those of OLLI and NOAA.
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| Historical Perspectives on Climate Change
Speaker: James Rodger Fleming Get a historical perspective on how our understanding of Earth’s climate system evolved through a succession of pioneering scientists in the 1800s and 1900s who asked, and answered, fundamental questions about the causes and effects of global climate change. | The State of the Climate
Speaker: Deke Arndt Drawing on the annual State of the Climate reports, published by the AMS Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, this session presents of the preponderance of scientific evidence that global climate change is occurring. | What is the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Higgins Learn about the relationships and differences between weather and climate, as well as the differences between natural climate variability and human-induced climate change. |
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| Is the Breathing of the World’s Ocean Choking Marine Life?
Speaker: Dr. Christopher L. Sabine Review ongoing impacts of acidification on marine ecology and projections of likely future impacts on marine life if this trend continues. | Limiting the Magnitude of & Adapting to Future Climate Change
Speakers: Robert W. Fri Claudia Mengelt Learn about the findings from a recent series of reports by the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science highlighting options for adapting to and mitigating global climate change. | Ethics and Issues Surrounding Geo-Engineering to Mitigate Climate Change
Speaker: Dr. Michael MacCracken This session explores of the pros and cons, as well as legal and ethical considerations, involved in options for “geo-engineering.” |
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| Climate Change Communication: Focusing on Public Engagement
Speaker: Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D. A summary about social scientists’ research into Americans’ attitudes and opinions about global climate change. | ||
