Department of Geosciences 2009 Winter Seminar Series January 1st, 2009
Global Climate Change: Detection, Attribution, Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation, and Litigation
January 13
Ben Santer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“How Do We Know That Human Activities Have Influenced Global Climate?”
January 20
David Battisti
University of Washington
“Global Warming and Global Food Production”
January 27
Dan Schrag
Harvard University
“Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge”
February 3
Heather Holsinger
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
“U.S. Climate Policy: A Brave New World?”
February 10
Bette Otto-Bleisner
National Center for Atmospheric Research
“Polar Warmth, Ice Sheet Stability and Sea-Level Rise: Past Perspectives”
February 17
Roger Pielke, Jr.
University of Colorado
“Uncomfortable Knowledge About Climate Policy”
February 27
Eric Rignot
NASA and U. of California, Irvine
“Satellite Studies of the Contribution to Sea Level Rise from Greenland and Antarctica Ice Dynamics”
March 2
Steve Susman
Susman Godfrey LLP
“Climate Change Litigation: The Courthouse Effect”
March 11
Brian Fagan
University of California,Santa Barbara
“The Great Warming, or the Story of the Silent Elephant in the Room”