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Hotting Up
Where:
University of Surrey, Room 13BB04
When:
Oct 7 2013 - 13:00
PROFESSOR CHRIS RAPLEY CBE, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor of climate change, University College London
This seminar provides an update on the state of the evidence for human-induced climate change and addresses the issue of climate dismissal: Why is it happening and what can be done to turn around an increasingly unhelpful situation?See the presentation below.
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About
Prof Chris Rapley will provide an update on the state of the evidence for human-induced climate change and will then address the issue of climate dismissal: Why is it happening and what can be done to turn around an increasingly unhelpful situation?
Professor Chris Rapley CBE is Professor of Climate Science at University College London. He is a Fellow of St Edmund's College Cambridge, a visiting Professor at Imperial College London, a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a member of the Academia Europaea, and a member of the European Space Agency Director General’s High Level Science Policy Advisory Committee. He recently was appointed Chair of the London Climate Change Partnership, committed to ensuring London’s resilience to climate change.
His previous posts include Director of the Science Museum London, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, and Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Before that Prof Rapley established and built up the Earth Observation satellite group at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory. His research was in the fields of space astronomy and Earth remote sensing from space.
Throughout his career Professor Rapley has been active in the international leadership of science, for example as President of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, and as Chair of the planning group for the International Polar Year 2007-2008. His current interests are in the communication of climate science, and the psychology of climate dismissal.
Chris was awarded the 2008 Edinburgh Science Medal for having made 'a significant contribution to the understanding and wellbeing of humanity'.
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Please note that any views and opinions expressed in the seminar are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of RESOLVE, SLRG, ESRC, Defra, The Scottish Government or the University of Surrey
