Funding opportunities are now available to students of GEC3 members
Deadline: February 4, 2011.
For additional information click here.

on Jan 27th the McGill Biology Dept will host Anne de Vernal of UQAM, who will give a talk at the Redpath Museum from 3-4 pm

Using microfossil remains for the reconstruction of climate history: examples of sea-surface temperature and sea-ice estimates from dinoflagellate cysts in polar and subpolar environments.

What Questions Should We Be Asking
About Gas Shale?

Dr. Robert W. Howarth
David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and
Environmental Biology
Cornell University
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/
This presentation examines the wisdom of viewing natural gas as a transitional fuel over the coming decades, considering the pollution effects of hydraulic fracturing and the likelihood that the greenhouse gas footprint exceeds that of oil [...]

Paleo-Climates and Cultural Change in the
Eastern Canadian Arctic

Dr. Sarah Finkelstein
Department of Geography
University of Toronto
http://www.geog.utoronto.ca/info/facweb/finkelstein/index.html

Friday, December 3, 2010
3:30 pm

Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University
All are welcome to attend.

Fixing the Sky: Historical perspectives on weather and climate control
Poster
Prof. James R. Fleming
6:00-7:30 pm, Thurs, Nov 4, 2010
Leacock 219, McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West
This presentation examines the tragicomic history of rainmakers, weather warriors, and climate engineers, arguing that “history matters” in pressing issues of current public policy concern and technical decision-making.
James Rodger Fleming is a [...]

What is the climate?

Dr. Shaun Lovejoy

Department of Physics
McGill University

It is sobering to realize that in spite of the rapid growth of climate change science, there is still no agreed upon objective definition of its object.  The basic problem is how to objectively distinguish the weather from the climate.  In this talk, we [...]

Tentative Schedule
(restricted to GEC3 members’ students)
September 24, 2010
Thomson House McGill University
3650 McTavish Ave. Montreal

Time

Item

10:00

Welcome (coffee and pastry)

10:00-12:00

Workgroup on GEC3 Governance and Communication
(Participants: Gail, Chmura, Alejandro Di Luca, Fidelis Folifac, Daniel Deeds, Geoff Garver, David Fox, Felexce Ngwa, Alex Matveev, Amanda Alfonso, Isabel Galiana)

12:00-12:50

Lunch (open to all)

12:50-1:00

GEC3 Welcome [...]

For additional information please click here.

Why Climate Policy Crashed in 2009
and
What to do about it?

Dr. Gwyn Prins

Research Professor and Director
London School of Economics
Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events

Monday, September 20
10:00 a.m.

Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University
All are welcome to attend.
See Gwyn Prins on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgBVPx5Vap0

In today’s Issue of Science

GEC3 member Damon Matthews

and colleagues explain how

“Slowing climate change requires

overcoming inertia in political, technological,

and geophysical systems.”

See the full paper:

Davis, Caldeira, and Matthews.  2010. Future CO2 Emissions and Climate Change from [...]