Speaking of Science
Ting Series on Understanding Climate Change
Global Warming:
The scale of the problem
and the path to the solution
Presented by Dr. Andrew J. Weaver
Free Public Lecture
7:30 pm, Thursday
October 9, 2008
Room 1400
Simon Fraser University at
Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
As seating is limited,
reservations are
recommended. To
reserve, email cs-science@
sfu.ca or telephone
778-782-5466.
This lecture is the third
lecture in the Ting
Series on Understanding
Climate Change. To receive
information about future
lectures, please contact
Continuing Studies in
Science: cs-science@sfu.ca
or 778-782-5466.
This talk will focus on the content of Dr. Weaver’s recently published
book: Keeping our Cool: Canada in a Warming World (Viking Canada).
The foundations of the science of global warming will be presented and a
discussion of our present climate will be framed within a historical
perspective of the Earth’s climate over the last 650,000 years. The
range of projections of climate change over the next century will be
summarized and the public confusion arising from the media portrayal
of the science and its entry into the political arena will be discussed.
Finally, how the Kyoto Protocol and other potential international policy
options fit within the framework of necessary actions required to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions will be reviewed.
Dr. Andrew J. Weaver is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in
climate modelling and analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
University of Victoria (UVic). He joined UVic in 1992 after serving three
years as Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
University Research Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences, McGill University. He has authored or coauthored
over 180 peer-reviewed papers in climate, meteorology, oceanography,
earth science, policy, education and anthropology journals. He was
involved as a Lead Author in the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change second, third and fourth scientific assessments and was co-chair of the UN WCRP
CLIVAR-PAGES Intersection Panel. He is currently the Chief Editor of the Journal of Climate.
He is the past recipient of the NSERC E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (1997), Killam
Research Fellowship (2002) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008). He received the CIAR
Young Explorers award as one of the top 20 scientists in Canada under the age of 40 and is
an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2001) and of the Canadian Meteorological
and Oceanographic Society.
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