Outdoor Science Talks At The Cantor Arts Center - Global Warming: How Do We Manage The Risks? (Talk 2)

Outdoor science talks at the cantor arts center please join us for stanford's acclaimed summer science lecture series on the lawn adjacent to the cantor arts center on four thursday evenings. You are invited to come early and wander through the art museum, buy dinner in the art center's cool cafe or bring your own picnic, and then settle on the lawn outside to hear informal lectures about cutting-edge research from four of stanford's most esteemed professors. We promise that all of the talks will be delivered in terms understandable to the lay public. So bring your whole family (high school age and up) and enjoy! The outdoor science series is co-sponsored by the stanford office for science outreach, the cantor arts center, and stanford continuing studies. Outdoor science talk 2 - global warming: how do we manage the risks? There is strong consensus that the earth's growing population, as it demands higher standards of living and uses cheap, available technologies (e.g. Burning coal, and driving gas-consuming large automobiles), will cause the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere to double or even triple by the year 2100. This implies many potentially serious impacts, though not all are negative. However, the distribution of these impacts is uneven, with most severe effects being experienced in poorer, warmer places, high mountains, polar regions, or in "hurricane alley." in this talk, stephen schneider will discuss the local, regional, and international actions that are already being taken to address the problem, and he will describe what else could be done if there were political will to substantially reduce the magnitude of the risks. Stephen h. Schneider , the melvin and joan lane professor for interdisciplinary environmental studies stephen h. Schneider is the melvin and joan lane professor for interdisciplinary environmental studies, professor of biological sciences, and a senior fellow in the woods institute for the environment at stanford. His research focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. Http://csp.stanford.edu/course/evt173.asp lawn outside cantor arts center