Cutting Edge Lecture: What does it take to stabilize climate change?

Stabilizing climate change is one of the most pressing and difficult environmental challenges facing our generation.This lecture reviews the current state of climate change science and discusses the current challenges facing us as we try to grapple with what is required to ultimately stabilize global temperatures. The lecture approaches this problem from the perspective of Earth system modelling, which provides a compelling and powerful tool to predict what levels of future human greenhouse gas emissions are required to stabilize climate and minimize the risk of potentially dangerous human interference in the climate system.

Cutting Edge Lectures in Science was initiated in 2003 with the express purpose of fostering communication between scientists in different disciplines as well as between scientists and the public. Co-sponsored by the Principal, the Dean of Medicine, the Dean of Science, the Provost and the Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations).