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Climate Policy Seminar Series
Addressing Cross-Disciplinary Challenges and Solutions
The spring speaker series “Climate Policy: Addressing Cross-Disciplinary Challenges and Solutions” focuses on the challenges of designing and implementing climate change policy at local, state, national, and international levels.
February 9, 2009
118 Lewis Katz Building, Dickinson School of Law
12:00 Noon
Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University
"The Scientific Challenges of Climate Change "
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February 17, 2009
118 Lewis Katz Building, Dickinson School of Law
12:00 Noon
Jae Edmonds, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"The Technological Challenges of Addressing Climate Change"
March 26, 2009
114 Lewis Katz Building, Dickinson School of Law
2:00 PM
John Reilly, MIT Joint Program on Science & Policy of Global Change
"The Economic Challenges of Addressing Climate Change"
April 7, 2009
101 Pattee Library, Foster Auditorium
12:00 Noon
Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
"Is Consensus the Goal of Science (and Should it Be)?"
Presenation not available
April 22, 2009
100 Life Sciences Building
7:00 PM
Jon Krosnick, Stanford University
"What Americans Really Think About Climate Change - Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy"
Presentation not available
The series is organized and supported by the Climate Risk Management Initiative, Dickinson School of Law, the Environment and Natural Resources Institute (ENRI), Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment (PSIEE), Rock Ethics Institute, Office of the Physical Plant, and Environmental Credit Corporation. Additional support for selected talks is provided by the Earth System Science Center, Communication Arts and Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, and the Social Science Research Institute.
For more information contact Anna Marie Nachman at amn6@psu.edu.
