Important lessons regarding current and future climate change trends can be derived from the paleo-climate record. Particularly from abrupt events such as the Oldest dryas (~16 kyr), Older dryas (~14 kyr), Younger dryas (12.9–11.7 kyr) and the ~8.2 kyr Laurentian ice melt event all of which occurred over time-scales of a few decades to a few years.
Lavanya Rajamani (The Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi) The international climate change negotiations, plagued as they are by deep-seated and seemingly irresolvable differences, have had to demonstrate remarkable dexterity over the years in skirting political dysfunction to reach agreement. The agreements reached reflect innovation and experimentation in several respects: the architecture of the legal... View Article
At present, the most important strategy to avert such consequences would be investment in CO2 down-draw measures and the channeling water from flooded to desiccated regions, such as from northern Australia to the Murray-Darling basins
Gilbert Brunet (Bureau of Meteorology)
Rob Chadwick (Met Office UK) Future projections of tropical precipitation show large uncertainties at the regional scales relevant to climate change impacts. In order to narrow this uncertainty and produce robust, useable information for climate change adaptation, the mechanisms that drive regional precipitation change in the tropics must first be understood. In particular, the response... View Article
Gidon Bromberg (co-founder and Israeli co-Director of EcoPeace Middle East) Description Gidon Bromberg, co-founder and Israeli co-Director of EcoPeace Middle East, will give a lecture and answer questions on the subject of the recently released EcoPeace report on Climate Change, Water Security and National Security for Jordan, Palestine and Israel. Gidon will present the challenges... View Article
Claire Mason (University of Tasmania)
Coastal ecosystems such as seagrass beds and seaweed communities are facing rapidly changing ocean conditions due to ocean warming, ocean acidification and eutrophication. The three speakers will talk about different approaches to understand the effects that the projected future ocean conditions will have on seaweeds and seagrasses, including omics techniques and field and laboratory based... View Article
Bree Woods (University of Tasmania)
Myles Allen (University of Oxford) Achieving Net Zero — Solving climate change without carbon taxes and with a little help of the fossil fuel industry
