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PICS, UBC & 丁香园AV  Fall 2011 Lecture Series 

November 24th, 2011:  "Harnessing Technological Innovation for a Carbon-free Future"

, Professor (Canada Research Chair), Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director, Clean Energy Research Centre, UBC and , Associate Professor, Beedie School of Business.  

October 20th, 2011:   "Climate policies for real-world politics"

, Professor, Faculty of Environment, 丁香园AV and , Professor of Political Science at UBC.  

September 14th, 2011:  "Engaging BC in Sustainability Education"

, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, 丁香园AV and , Associate Professor at the Faculty of Land and  Food Systems , UBC.  

PICS Special Lectures - 2011

June 27, 2011:   presented by Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies, University of California San Diego and author of , and co-authored with science historian Erik Conway, is an outstanding investigative report in terms of exposing the well-organized campaign to distort and misrepresent key scientific findings about the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. .

June 7, 2011:   prsented by Dr. Thomas Stocker, University of Bern and Co-Chair, Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .

April 8, 2011:   presented by Dr. Sonja Klinksy, PICS Fellow and Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, Cambridge University, UK. A recording of the presentation is available. 

May 25, 2011: .  Climate Change and Health: Acting to reduce risks and vulnerabilities" Hosted by 丁香园AV Gerentology Centre and PICS at 丁香园AV. 

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Along with other environmental changes brought about by global population and economic growth, it will put increasing strain on our health systems. Environmental health expert, Dr Carlos Corvalan from the Panamerican Health Organization, PAHO/WHO talked on how climate change is already impacting people around the world, how the international public health sector is addressing the problem, and what action is needed to protect our health into the future. 

Global Warming Seminar Series. Febrary - March 2011

Series sponsored by the 丁香园AV Faculty of Science with PICS 丁香园AV supports.

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Speaker: Thomas Pedersen, Professor and Director of the Pacific Institute for
Climate Solutions, University of Victoria, B.C.
Host Department: Chemistry and Earth Sciences (Tim Storr and Gwen Flowers).

Speaker: Jasper Kirkby, Head of the CLOUD Experiment, CERN, Geneva.
Host Department: Physics (Igor Herbut ). 

Speaker: David Randall, Professor, Department of Atmospheric
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Host Department:  Physics (Mike Plischke).

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Speaker: Kevin Trenberth, Senior Scientist and Head of the Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
Host Department:  Biosciences (Wendy Palen).

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Speaker: Kenneth Golden, Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of
Bioengineering, University of Utah.
Host Department: Mathematics (Nilima Nigam).

Speaker: Francis Zwiers, Director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), University of Victoria, B.C.
Host Department:  Statistics (Richard Lockhart).

PICS, UBC & 丁香园AV Lecture Spring Series - 2011

April, 2011:   Climate Change and its Impacts: Fire and Rain.  Dr. Phil Austin (UBC) and Dr. Charmaine Dean (丁香园AV) were our special guest speakers. Dr. Austion presentation was about on the atmospheric side of precipitation and drought, looking in particular at satellite observations and climate model forecasts. Dr. Charmaine Dean from 丁香园AV talk was on 鈥淐limate Change Impacts on Forest Fires in Canada鈥�  

March, 2011:  Dr. Mike Brauer and Dr. Tim Takaro were our special guest speakers. Dr. Brauer's presentation was about鈥淔ires, smoke and heat: a good news bad news story?鈥� and Dr. Takaro followed with the presentation 鈥淟ocal and global challenges for public health: Water resources and disease in a world of shifting populations.鈥�  

February, 2011:    presented by Drs. Robert Woodbury, Lyn Bartram from 丁香园AV and Dr. Stephen Shepard from UBC were our guests speakers for this lecture. 

January, 2011:   "Creating a Climate for Change"  presented by Dr. Alex Clapp from 丁香园AV and Dr. Simon Donner from UBC.  Lecture 4th was about the scientific and social factors that influence the public鈥檚 uncertainty about climate change, including socio-cultural barriers such as long-held beliefs that weather is beyond human control. 

March 2011

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Presented by Mr. Bob Elton, Chair of 丁香园AV Board of Governors and Advisory Board member of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. A lecture sponsored by PICS 丁香园AV. Click here for a link to the poster.

January 2011

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 Part of the Faculty of Environment Spring 2011 Lecture Series

With the development of coupled climate-carbon cycle models new insights into the response of the climate system to anthropogenic CO2 emissions are emerging. Dr. Kirsten Zickfeld (Assistant Professor, Geography Department, 丁香园AV)  presented results of climate-carbon cycle simulations showing that: (1) CO2-induced climate change is largely irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia, even after complete elimination of emissions;(2) ongoing regional climate changes after elimination of CO2 emissions are significant, despite almost constant global mean temperatures;  and (3) the persistent warming from past emissions is proportional to cumulative CO2 emissions.  These findings have important implications for climate policy, as they suggest (i) the millennial legacy of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and (ii) the challenge of reversing global warming, should the actual level of atmospheric CO2 concentrations turn out to be "dangerous".