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2010› February › The Science of Climate Change

The Science of Climate Change

February 3, 2010, 12:00pm – 1:30pm

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An overwhelming quantity of direct observations and analyses published by
scientists in various disciplines around the world demonstrates that human
activity has warmed the planet and altered the climate. The severity of the
projected impacts of continuing on our current greenhouse gas emissions path has
only increased in recent years.

Please join the Center for American Progress for an educational event
featuring two respected scientists who have both helped author reports produced
by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Michael MacCracken and Dr.
Christopher Field will explain the IPCC's assessment process, how we know what
we know about human-caused climate change, what we have learned since the 2007
IPCC report, and why the science must inform public policy in the United
States.

Featured Speakers:
Christopher
Field, Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of
Washington, and Professor of Biology and Environmental Earth System Science at
Stanford University, and a coordinating lead author for the IPCC’s Fourth
Assessment
Michael
MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate
Institute, and co-author/contributing author for various chapters in the IPCC
assessment reports

Moderated by:
Joseph
Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

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1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
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Resources

Joe
Romm presentation (pdf)

Christopher
Field presentation (pdf)

Michael
MacCracken presentation (pdf)

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