Climate Policy and Outcomes from Durban
Paul Natsuo Kishimoto, Arthur Gueneau
Tue Jan 24, 01-03:00pm, E51-151
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Concerned about climate change, but unsure how our policy options stack up? Come learn enough to hold your own at a cocktail party on current climate policy topics! From the basic economics to the pros and cons and political feasibility of different policy options, this course will be a tour de force of current issues in climate change economics and policy.
In particular, we'll help you decipher the outcomes from Durban in November 2011, and compare the stances of the major players as the world works towards a 2015 agreement to replace the Kyoto protocol.
Web: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=471
Contact: Megan Lickley, E19-411, mlickley@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
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Impacts of a Changing Climate
Martin Singh, Megan Lickley, Arthur Gueneau
Tue Jan 17, 01-02:00pm, E51-335
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
We have just lived through a year of "weird weather", with a record dozen disasters causing over a billion-plus dollars in damages -- and this is just in the U.S.. The Globe and other media has written that weather is just "unpredictable", a period of "bad luck", an exaggerated El Nino: are they right? Is the weather unpredictable, or is it a pattern that we need to better understand?
Clearly, it is time to become more aware of the consequences of the changes that we are making in our atmosphere and oceans, and to start with a better understanding of how our weather is created.
Web: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=470
Contact: Megan Lickley, E19-411, mlickley@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
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The Mercury Game
Leah Stokes, Rebecca Saari
Thu Jan 26, 01:30-04:30pm, E51-151
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Jan-2012
Limited to 10 participants.
Single session event
\*\*Please only sign up if you will be fully committed to attending and participating as a player of the game. Please email Leah at lstokes@mit.edu to sign up.\*\*
This Mercury Game is a role-play simulation aimed at scientists and students. Playing the game will help participants explore the consequences of representing scientific uncertainty in various ways in a policy context. The game focuses on the credibility of various sources of technical information, strategies for representing risk and uncertainty, and the balance between scientific and political considerations.
The game will also require the players to grapple with political considerations. It explores the dynamic between the global “North” (the developed world) and the global “South” (the developing world) at the heart of most treaty-making difficulties. Ultimately, the role play should help to make clear how scientific information can be favorably employed in an environmental treaty making process.
The results of the game will be used in a doctoral research project on the relationship between science and policy in international environmental negotiations.
Web: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/event-item.php?id=472
Contact: Leah Stokes, E19-411, lstokes@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
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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
Cosponsor: Center for Global Change Science
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