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Ozone Hole and Southern Hemisphere Climate Change: Climate Impact of the Montreal Protocol

Seok-Woo Son

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University

Abstract

Climate change in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) has been robustly documented in the last several years. It has altered the atmospheric circulation in a surprising number of ways: a rising global [...]

The Winter 2010 GEC3 Seminar Series Schedule is now available

Seminar Series

An Analysis of a Technology-led

Climate Policy as a

Response to Climate Change

Isabel Galiana

&

Chris Green

Department of Economics, McGill University

Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3)

We analyze a [...]

Seminar

Abstract

The Arctic’s climate is changing rapidly, to the extent that ‘dangerous’ climate change as defined by the United Nations Framework on Climate Change might already be occurring. These changes are having implications for Canada’s Inuit population and are being exacerbated [...]

Land surface processes and land-climate interactions in climate models

The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) 2009-10 Seminar Speaker Series presents:

Dr. Laxmi Sushama
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, UQAM
Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3)

Abstract:
Interactions between the atmosphere and the underlying surface are important and determine the evolution of many simulated near-surface variables. Efforts are underway within the Canadian Regional Climate [...]

Fueling Our Adaptations to Climate Change

Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre & Lightfoot Institute Presents a Lecture by:

H. Douglas Lightfoot

“Fueling our adaptations to climate change”

At this point energy supply is more important than climate change. Without a secure and affordable energy supply neither developed nor developing societies can cope with today’s changing climate. [...]