2018 Christ’s College Climate Seminars: Thinking creatively about climate change: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
The Centre for Science and Policy and Christ's College have worked with Professor Charles Kennel, Emeritus Director at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to convene a series of seminars on thinking creatively about climate change. This series will address three questions: In what ways are climates changing? What meanings are ascribed to these changes? And what is the scope for future interventions? The series will explore questions from scientific, cultural and policy perspectives.
The seminar was given by Dr Steve Smith, Head of Climate Science at Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Dr Smith will discusses three stories of unexpected developments in the relationship between science and climate policy - emission metrics, adaptation reporting and the 1.5°C goal to highlight how these surprises connect to some of today's priorities for climate research.
The third seminar of the series was given by Professor Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography. Professor Hulme, discussing the idea of the environmental humanities - anthropology, literary and religious studies, environmental history and cultural geography, of climate change.
The second seminar by Dr Renata Tyszczuk, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, discussing the history of scenarios in thinking about unsettled times and the potential of scenarios for collective and improvisational responses to changing climates and transformed futures.
The first seminar in the Christ's College Climate series, Professor Charles Kennel, Director Emeritus of the Sripps Institution of Oceanography, discusses discussing how Global warming slowed in 1999 even though greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise, and potential impact of Arctic Ocean warming on the El Nino/La Nina cycle.