Colorado State Launches Climate Lecture Series
Colorado State University plans to launch a new lecture series on “Climate Change: What We All Need to Know.” The series kicks off at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, with a talk by atmospheric science professor David Randall on “Climate Change: Past, Present and Future.”
The kickoff lecture will be held in the North Ballroom of CSU’s Lory Student Center. The entire series is free and open to the public.
Randall, a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that earned the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, currently focuses his research on how clouds affect global climate systems.
Future lectures in the climate series will include Alan Knapp on “The Biological & Ecological Effects of Climate Change” (Oct. 9), Charles Kolstad on “The Economics of Climate Change” (Nov. 6), Linda Bierds and Marybeth Hollemon on “Climate Change and the Literary Imagination” (Nov. 13), Scott Denning on “Solutions to the Climate/Energy Problem,” presented by Scott Denning, CSU, Atmospheric Science (Feb. 5), Lori Peek on “The Effects of Climate Change on People” (March 12) and Michele Betsill on “Climate Change Politics & Policy Making” (April 9).
The series is part of an ongoing program called Changing Climates at Colorado State University, or CC@CSU. Launched in the fall of 2007, the program aims to build a network of faculty members and researchers who are interested in all aspects of climate change, and to spread their knowledge to students and the community at large.
