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CLIMATE CHANGE LECTURE SERIES TO TAKE PLACE AT OBERLIN COLLEGE DURING APRIL AND MAY
MARCH 30, 2001--Beginning April 10, four of the country’s leading experts on global climate change and its implications will come to the campus of Oberlin College to take part in a free, public program titled The 2001 Climate Change Speakers’ Series.
The talks will be presented April 10, April 19, and May 3 at 7:30 P.M. in the Adam Joseph Lewis Center's Hallock Auditorium, 122 Elm Street.
Oberlin’s Environmental Studies Program and 2020 Project developed the program to continue the dialogue begun at the College’s highly successful Climate Change Symposium in February.
"The series is a direct response to the symposium," says 2020 Project Coordinator Paige Wiegman. "Queries about the discussion came from near and far and those in attendance demonstrated intense grass-roots interest in the issue. Bringing the experts to campus will continue that dialogue."
In the first lecture, on Tuesday, April 10, George Woodell, the founder and director of The Woods Hole Research Center and an ecologist with broad interests in global environmental issues and policies, will examine the science of climate change in "The Struggle for Enlightenment: The Science and Politics of Climate Destruction in a Dark Age."
The 2001 Climate Change Speakers' Series also includes
- Thursday, April 19--William Moomaw will explore the possibilities and problems associated with creating an international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change in "Climate Change: Is an International Treaty Really Possible?" Moomaw is professor of international environmental policy and director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment.
- Thursday, May 3--Jonathan Patz and Howard Frumkin will examine the effects of climate change on public health in a joint lecture titled "Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Meteorology to Moral Imperative."
Patz is director of the Program on the Health Effects of Global Environmental Change at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Frumkin is chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
For more information about the 2001 Climate Change Speakers' Series, contact Paige Wiegman by e-mail or telephone at (440) 775-8747.
Media Contact: Sue Kropp
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