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Thomas Whalen: Politico 6-23-11
Thomas Whalen, Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Boston University, responds to Politico.com's "The Arena" question asking whether or not Al Gore is right in attacking President Obama for failing to take "bold action" on climate change.
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Eating Green: Food and Climate Change
Mia MacDonald, founder of the environmental nonprofit Brighter Green, and Bjorn-Ola Linner, director of the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linkoping University, argue that modern food production is a major but often-overlooked [...]contributor to global warming in the fourth session of the conference The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives.
Hosted by The Institute for Human Sciences, BU Food and Wine Programs, MET Department of Gastronomy, and the Center for International Relations on May 9, 2009.
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Can We Afford the Future? The Economics of a Warming World
There is no question that global warming exists, but there is little action among the government and society at large to take steps to combat it. Economist Frank Ackerman argues that the standard economic models used to calculate the global cost of [...]protection, versus the cost of destruction of the planet, focus on an incomplete cost-benefit analysis.
Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 28, 2009.
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Microorganisms and Global Warming
Did you know that microorganisms play an enormous role in climate change? BU Researcher Jenny Talbot provides insights into how an unseen world has huge consequences on how we predict global climate change.
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2016 University Lecture Presented by Richard B. Primack, Professor of Biology
Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods. For more than a decade, Professor Primack and his team have been using Henry David Thoreau’s records from the 1850s as a baseline to document the earlier flowering and leafing out [...]of plants, the variable responses of migratory birds, and the earlier melting of ice on Walden Pond. Wildflowers are also declining. If Thoreau were alive today, would he still recognize the Walden he chronicled 160 years ago?
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