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Public Lecture Series 2024-2025 - Demystifying climate extremes: how lessons from the past inform the future

Calendar Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Calendar 18:30-19:30

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Tipping points in the land-atmosphere realm

Speaker: Peter Hopcroft (University of Birmingham)

We are living in an alarming period of global warming. The series will show how past changes in greenhouse gases impacted our planet’s global climate, hydrological cycles, ice cover, and marine and terrestrial ecosystems. It will explore how understanding our geological past can contribute to potential physical and social solutions to mitigate extreme future events.