Arctic Warming and Global Climate Change
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Description
International Inquiry
The warming Arctic is both a result of global warming and key contributor to it. Reduced sea ice in the summer occurs because of a warming atmosphere and ocean. With dark water absorbing more solar energy than
reflective sea ice, it accelerates global warming as well. Calving of icebergs from glaciers and growing melting of the Greenland ice sheet is further impacting the composition and temperature of northern oceans.Thawing permafrost has become a source instead of a sink for heat trapping carbon dioxide and methane. So what can be done? As part of an ongoing Fletcher School initiative, a group of experts, policy makers, business and
media will convene to examine the critical interaction of the Arctic and global climate change - and share some fresh ideas to address it!
Sponsored by:
The Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy
Center of International Environment and Resource Policy
Canadian Consulate Boston
Media Partners:
Global Post, Alaska Dispatch, Living on Earth
Monday, March 25
Tuesday, March 26 2013
The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Tufts University, Medford, MA USA
Arctic Warming and Global Climate Change
Deadly Dance
Speakers:
Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University
Dalee Sambo Dorough, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage
Kwong Byong Kwan, ForeverForest, Seoul
Robin Chase, BuzzCar, Paris
Andrew Freedman, Climate Central, New York
Craig Altemore, 350.org, Cambridge
and Fletcher faculty:
Crocker Snow - The Arctic Index
William Moomaw - “Burden Bearing to
Opportunity Sharing”
INQUIRY TOPICS:
Science Worst Case/Best Case
Indigenous Insights
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