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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. [...]

Deconstructing Water in the Canadian Basin: Not as easy as it looks

The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) 2008-09 Seminar Speaker Series presents:

Dr. Robert Newton
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Palisades, NY
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/user/bnewton

“Deconstructing Water in the Canadian Basin: Not as easy as it looks”

Thursday, April 23, 2009
2:00 p.m.
Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University
805 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, QC H3A 2K6

Abstract: There is a cottage industry in [...]

Passive-microwave research related to the hydrologic cycle

The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) 2008-09 Seminar Speaker Series presents:

Dr. Christian Mätzler
Institute for Applied Physics (IAP)
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland

http://www.iap.unibe.ch

“Passive-microwave research related to the hydrologic cycle”

Friday, April 17, 2009
3:30 p.m.
Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University
805 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, QC H3A 2K6
Abstract: The research activity of the Microwave Unit at IAP [...]

Abrupt Climate Change: Would We See it Coming Early Enough?

The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) 2008-09 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations Speaker Series presents:

Dr. Klaus Keller
Department of Geosciences
Pennsylvania State University

Friday, March 27, 2009
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Room 426, Burnside Hall
805 Sherbrooke Street West
McGill University

Join us for coffee at 3:15 p.m.
All welcome

Abrupt Climate Change: Would We See it Coming Early Enough?

Abstract: Model simulations and the [...]

The Human Dimensions of Climate Change: Is it Time to go Deeper?

The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) 2008-09 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations Speaker Series presents:

Dr. Karen O’Brien
Dept. of Sociology and Human Geography
University of Oslo, Norway

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Room 426, Burnside Hall
805 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC

coffee at 11:45 a.m. – all welcome

The Human Dimensions of Climate Change: Is it Time to go [...]

Understanding Global Climate Models: Basics for the Non-Climate Scientist

Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre Presents:
Understanding Global Climate Models: Basics for the Non-Climate Scientist

a free lecture series offered
Mondays and Wednesdays, Jan 12-28, 2009
4 – 5:30 pm
Room 306, Burnside Hall
805 Sherbrooke Street West
McGillUniversity

register by email: angela.mansi@mcgill.ca (please indicate title and institutional affiliation)

Did you ever think,“Where did Al Gore get the information to show those global climate [...]