This lecture starts at 1830 and will finish by 2000
Understanding human-induced climate change (and its likely consequences for future life on Earth) is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the day. However climate has been changing throughout geological history on a variety of scales through time and space, be it local, regional or global. Understanding past and present climate change is therefore an essential prerequisite for the prediction of future climate change.
Most of us living in Kent have a comfortable existence compared to the majority of the 7.2 billion inhabitants of our planet. However we must not be complacent, climate change will affect us all in the future, either directly or indirectly. This lecture will focus on natural climate change in the past, journey forward to the present to consider whether what is happening now is natural or not, then look forward to what climate we might expect to experience towards the end of this century.
The lecture will be presented by Dr. Andrew Haggart, Principal Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Greenwich. Based at the Medway Campus in Chatham, he has published academic papers on environmental change, notably sea-level change in Scotland and SE England during the Holocene, our present warm period.
There is no charge for this lecture but, in order to help with the organisation, please contact Ed Pegden with your name and number attending. Address: St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 7AE (Tel 01843 587666; email: elp@slcuk.com).
Understanding human-induced climate change (and its likely consequences for future life on Earth) is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the day. However climate has been changing throughout geological history on a variety of scales through time and space, be it local, regional or global. Understanding past and present climate change is therefore an essential prerequisite for the prediction of future climate change.
Most of us living in Kent have a comfortable existence compared to the majority of the 7.2 billion inhabitants of our planet. However we must not be complacent, climate change will affect us all in the future, either directly or indirectly. This lecture will focus on natural climate change in the past, journey forward to the present to consider whether what is happening now is natural or not, then look forward to what climate we might expect to experience towards the end of this century.
The lecture will be presented by Dr. Andrew Haggart, Principal Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Greenwich. Based at the Medway Campus in Chatham, he has published academic papers on environmental change, notably sea-level change in Scotland and SE England during the Holocene, our present warm period.
There is no charge for this lecture but, in order to help with the organisation, please contact Ed Pegden with your name and number attending. Address: St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 7AE (Tel 01843 587666; email: elp@slcuk.com).
