Apr 4th, 2017, 06:20 PM

Hope for Climate Change

By Eliza Brown
Image Credit: Mercer Investment
Oxford Professor and climate change expert, Myles Allen, will lecture at AUP on April 18th.

Climate change expert, Professor Myles Allen of the University of Oxford, will be speaking at AUP this Tuesday, April 18th at 17:30 in room C-104. His lecture will address how the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects a overly pessimistic future as it suggests global warming is set to pass the 2C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold.

Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative, Professor of Geosystem Science and Head of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University, Professor Allen's research focuses on how natural phenomena and human activities have an impact on the climate. He is interested in quantifying the risk of extreme weather for long-range climate forecasts. Claudio Piani, AUP Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Math and Environmental Science Department, encourages students and faculty to attend Professor Allen’s lecture: "He carries a message of hope. That is, that the 2-degree warming threshold, and all the associated catastrophic climate consequences, can be avoided by adhering to the policies set out in the Paris Agreements of 2015.”

LOCATION

Date: Tuesday, April 18th

Time: 17:30

Address: 6, rue du Colonel Combes, 75007

Room: C-104