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Social Action 2011:
Great While it Lasted; Now What?
With Professor Chris Rapley CBE, Director of the Science Museum
LEC155
| THU |
| 24 |
| MAR |
Part of Social Action 2011 at LJCC
In Partnership with the Big Green Jewish Website.
The lecture will draw attention to the link between energy consumption and climate change, will provide an overview of the evidence that has led the climate science community to conclude that human-induced climate change is happening and poses societal risks that need to be addressed, and will explore the insights revealed by the recent turbulent nature of public discussion of the subject.
Please note this week is Climate Week. For more information click here
PROFESSOR CHRIS RAPLEY CBE, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc. is Director of the Science Museum London and Professor of Climate Science at University College London. This follows a decade as Director of the British Antarctic Survey, and four years as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Prior to that, Prof Rapley spent an extended period as Professor of Remote Sensing Science at University College London. Throughout his career he has been active in the international leadership of science, for example as President of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, which coordinates the research activities of 34 nations in the Antarctic, and as Chair of the planning group for the International Polar Year 2007-2009.
He has a first degree in Physics from Oxford, a M.Sc. in Radioastronomy from Manchester University, a Ph.D. in X-ray astronomy from University College London. He has recently been awarded an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of St Edmund's College Cambridge, a Fellow of University College London, and an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. His interests are in climate change and earth system science, as well as a more general interest in the organisation, leadership and communication of science.
Chris was awarded the 2008 Edinburgh Science Medal for having made 'a significant contribution to the understanding and wellbeing of humanity'.
In Partnership with the Big Green Jewish Website.
The lecture will draw attention to the link between energy consumption and climate change, will provide an overview of the evidence that has led the climate science community to conclude that human-induced climate change is happening and poses societal risks that need to be addressed, and will explore the insights revealed by the recent turbulent nature of public discussion of the subject.
Please note this week is Climate Week. For more information click here
PROFESSOR CHRIS RAPLEY CBE, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc. is Director of the Science Museum London and Professor of Climate Science at University College London. This follows a decade as Director of the British Antarctic Survey, and four years as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Prior to that, Prof Rapley spent an extended period as Professor of Remote Sensing Science at University College London. Throughout his career he has been active in the international leadership of science, for example as President of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, which coordinates the research activities of 34 nations in the Antarctic, and as Chair of the planning group for the International Polar Year 2007-2009.
He has a first degree in Physics from Oxford, a M.Sc. in Radioastronomy from Manchester University, a Ph.D. in X-ray astronomy from University College London. He has recently been awarded an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of St Edmund's College Cambridge, a Fellow of University College London, and an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. His interests are in climate change and earth system science, as well as a more general interest in the organisation, leadership and communication of science.
Chris was awarded the 2008 Edinburgh Science Medal for having made 'a significant contribution to the understanding and wellbeing of humanity'.