of global climate change
The current and potential problems caused by human-induced climate change, and the challenges of initiating some of the short-and long-term solutions to them, will be explored in two discussions on Wednesday, Feb. 16.
Karl Turekian, the Benjamin Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale, and William Moomaw, professor of environmental policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, will discuss the theme "Ethical Dimensions and Possible Consequences of Global Climatic Change" as part of the Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series cosponsored by the Institutution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and Yale Hillel. Arthur Galston, the Eaton Professor Emeritus of Botany and of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, will moderate.
Turekian will focus on the issue "What Is the Evidence for Global Climatic Change?" while Moomaw will address "Practical and Ethical Problems Posed by Such Changes." Their first talk, which is open to members of the Yale community, will begin at noon at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. Lunch will be served. For luncheon reservations, call Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188.
The discussion will be repeated at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. This event is free and open to the public.
Turekian, who is also director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and of the Center for the Study of Global Change, has written widely about the environment. He has served on numerous international and national committees and research boards investigating the issues of climate change, environmental resources and pollution, and has won many prestigious honors for his work.
Moomaw has served since 1992 as director of the International Environment and Resource Policy Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is also director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment, which coordinates a variety of environmental programs in research, education, activism and outreach, and codirects the Global Development and Environment Institute, which explores the relationship among economics, environment and technology.
During the mid-1970s, Moomaw helped develop Congressional legislation that eliminated chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol cans. He is the principal lead author of industry chapters of the 1995 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and of an IPCC technical paper that explores technology and policies to help mitigate climate change. He is currently coordinating the emissions reduction chapter for the IPCC 2000 Assessment.
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