A Wild Suggestion for Climate Change

The Vision Series with Lovejoy

Monday, April 25, 2011 3:00 PM EDT
The Center for The Arts, Concert Hall

Thomas E. Lovejoy, Public and International Affairs and Environmental Science and Policy, gives the Vision Series lecture.

Abstract

Our planet does not work as just a physical system, but rather as a physical and biological system combined. This is more apparent now as the biology of the planet responds to the current amount of climate change (three quarters of a degree increase, as a global average). This talk will start by describing the response and great sensitivity of nature to the current temperature increase, will project ahead to what further increase could bring, and then focus on how managing the ecosystems at a planetary scale could contribute to a solution.

Tickets

The lecture is free to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets available online at http://cfa.gmu.edu/vision/tickets.php or at the Center for the Arts Ticket Office and on the evening of each presentation. Sorry, phone orders are not taken.

Sponsored by George Mason University Office of the Provost.