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112 Walker Building @ 4:00 p.m. - Recorded talks online

Date
Speaker
 

September 10, 2007

 

 

 

Nancy Tuana, Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, Professor of Philosophy

"Ethical Dimensions of Geoengineering"

 


 

and Klaus Keller, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University

 

 

 

 

September 17, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Mann, Associate Professor of Meteorology, Penn State University

"The Science of Climate Change"

 

 

 

 

September 24, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Maruszewski, Deputy Associate Vice President for Physical Plant

"Penn State's Carbon Footprint"

 

 

 

 

October 1, 2007

 

 

 

Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Energy Policy and Economics, Penn State University

"Taxation vs. regulation as a CO2 control policy"

 

 

 

October 8, 2007

 

 

 

 

Klaus Lackner, Professor of Geophysics, Columbia University

"CO2 Sequestration"

 

 

 

 

October 15, 2007

 

 

 

Carl Hess/Mark Whitfield, State College Borough Govt.

"Local Government Approaches to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions"

 

 

October 22, 2007

 

 

 

Klaus Keller, Assistant. Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University

"Economic discounting and the Stern Review"

 

 

 

Art Small, Associate. Professor of Meteorology, Penn State University

 

 

 

Jim Kasting, Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University

 

 

 

 

November 5, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Damon Matthews, Asst. Professor of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal Quebec

"Geoengineering"

 

 

 

 

November 12, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Robock, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

"Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?"

 

 

 


November 26, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Kathleen McGinty, Secretary, PA Dept. of Environmental Protection


"To Be Announced"

 

 

 

 

December 3 , 2007

 

 

 

Bill Easterling, Dean of College of Earth & Mineral Sciences, Penn State University

"Title to be Determined"