Local and Global Impacts of Climate Change: 5th IPCC Report | The New School

SCEPA's (http://www.newschool.edu/scepa) Economics of Climate Change lecture series presents a panel discussion with leading climate change scientists on the major findings of the 5th IPCC Report. They will discuss its local and global predictions and what it forecasts for urban areas, agriculture, food production, and developing economies. Local and Global Impacts of Climate Change: Predictions of the 5th IPCC Report In September, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the first of four reports providing updates on the scientific community's knowledge of climate change and its effects. The report from the first Working Group, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, strengthens the panel's degree of certainty that climate change is man-made and is the cause of melting ice, rising global sea levels and various forms of extreme weather. Department of Economics | http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/economics Speakers: Peter Schlosser, What Does the 5th Assessment Report Tell Us? Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University Deputy Director; Director of Research, The Earth Institute at Columbia University Robert Kopp, Local and Global Impacts of Extreme Weather Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University; Associate Director, Rutgers Energy Institute Wolfram Schlenker, Effects of Weather Change on Agricultural, Food Production & the Developing World Associate Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), serving as a coordinating lead author of the 5th Assessment Report, as well as, a special report on climate extremes and disasters. THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH | http://www.newschool.edu/nssr SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change project, led by New School Professor of Economics Willi Semmler, is generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Location: Wolff Conference Room, Albert and Vera List Academic Center Monday, November 18, 2013 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm