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“Global Impacts of Climate Change - the Human Dimension: Climate Change and the Polar Regions: barometer or timebomb?”
- Hosted by:
- Birkbeck
- Speaker:
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Professor David Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey
- Starts:
- February 29, 2008 at 06:30 pm
- Ends:
- February 29, 2008 at 08:30 pm
- Location:
- Birkbeck, Main Building, B34, Torrington Square, Camden, London, WC1E 7HX United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
Since the outset of scientific efforts to understand natural climatic changes on Earth and the anthropogenic climate change we have now begun to recognise, the Polar Regions have been at the centre of the debate. Today, these regions are, at once, the source of great insight into natural climate change in the Earth system, and the source of considerable confusion in the apparently counter-intuitive responses they are exhibiting today and may continue to display in the future. The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted many of these issues. While over most of the Arctic, recent rates of atmospheric warming have substantially exceeded the global average; the Antarctic is the only continent where a continent-wide anthropogenic influence on climate cannot yet be identified.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Booking essential
For more information
- Contact person:
- Amanda Iniss, for free tickets and venue details
- Phone:
- 020 7679 1069
- Email:
- environment [ at ] fce.bbk.ac.uk
- Website:
- “Global Impacts of Climate Change - the Human Dimension: Climate Change and the Polar Regions: barometer or timebomb?”
