Schools and Public Lecture
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.
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.
