Focus the Nation: a campus-wide conversation about climate change

January 30 & 31, 2008
focus.tulane.edu

In parallel with over 1000 universities and schools across the country, on Wednesday & Thursday, January 30 & 31, Tulane University will focus on the challenges of climate change. This interdisciplinary symposium on global warming will feature faculty and students speakers from across the disciplines; sessions on January 31 will follow the Thursday class schedule so faculty can bring their classes to participate.

On Wednesday, January 30, 2008, author and New Orleanian Chris Mooney will give a lecture entitled “Science at High Speeds: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming” at 5:00 p.m. in the Kendall Cram Room of the LBC. Mooney has covered the science linking global warming with more intense hurricanes. He will discuss the emerging science and the political and social contexts that shape the science. The winners of the Fall 2007 Reading Project Essay Contest will be presented immediately before Mr. Mooney’s lecture.

His lecture will be followed at 7:00 p.m. by a screening of “The 2% Solution.” This national web-cast looks at reducing the carbon emissions of the developed world by 2% each year for the next 40 years.

On Thursday, January 31, in the morning faculty members Torbjörn Törnqvist, Jeff Chambers, and William Balée will review the physical, biological and human dimensions of climate change, while afternoon breakout sessions will focus the diverse expertise of Tulane’s faculty and students on global warming, its implications and possible solutions.

Visit the website http://focus.tulane.edu for complete details & program schedule.