Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change

Michael E. Mann

Distinguished Professor of Meteorology; Director, Earth System Science Center

7 pm, October 19, 2015, Commonwealth Chateau, SugarLoaf Campus

Chestnut Hill College

This lecture will begin with a review of the now-solid evidence for a human influence on the climate of recent decades. Such evidence includes instrumental measurements available for the past two centuries, paleoclimate observations spanning more than a millennium, and comparisons of the predictions from computer models with observed patterns of climate change. The lecture will then address likely future impacts of human-induced climate change including possible influences on sea level rise, severe weather, and water supply. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of solutions to the climate change problem.

Dr. Michael E. Mann’s research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth’s climate system. He contributed to the third Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of science Frontiers in Science. A recipient of many awards, Mann is the author of Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming (2008) and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (2012).

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