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IAP 2012 Activity


The Science of Climate Change
Dan Chavas, Daniel Rothenberg
Thu Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, E51-335

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Climate change has become an important policy issue facing society and will continue to be long into the future. This talk will explore the basic science at the foundation of this complex issue, with the goal that audience members will leave equipped with the most basic physical logic for why anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are expected to significantly alter our climate.
Contact: Dan Chavas, drchavas@mit.edu
Sponsor: Joint Program/Science and Policy of Global Change
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
Latest update: 09-Jan-2012


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