EBC Seminar – Global Climate Change – A Primer

Over the past century, Earth’s average temperature has increased by approximately 1 degree Fahrenheit.  There is now strong evidence that this global warming is largely due to human emissions of greenhouse gases from a growing fossil fuel economy.  Unless these emissions are checked, additional warming of 2-10 degrees is projected by the end of the 21st century.

This first in an EBC series on Climate Change will bring together experts to discuss:

• What is known of the science of climate change
• How will climate change affect your world and your clients world
• What actions need to be initiated to address climate change

Keynote Speakers:

Climate Change: The Planetary Experiment
Prof. Daniel Schrag
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and
Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment
Harvard University

How Good Are Climate Forecasts?
Prof. Ronald G. Prinn, ScD
TEPCO Professor
Director of Center for Global Change Science
Co-Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of  Global Change
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

What Will It Take to Manage the Risk?

Prof. Henry D. Jacoby
Co-Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of  Global Change
Massachusetts Institute of Technology