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SUMMARY:INTEGRATING ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONS - Professor Julian
  Hunt (Lord Hunt of Chesterton)\, Professor of Climate Modelling\, Univers
 ity College\, London
DTSTART:20090205T170000Z
DTEND:20090205T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Key mechanisms for how the atmosphere and climate generally re
 sponds to large scale human influences need to be understood scientificall
 y. Explanations should also be in terms that are more understandable to po
 licy makers than computer predictions and data on a global scale\, which h
 ave featured too much in the recent public debate in the UK (eg Lords Hans
 ard July 15 2008). Some human influences on the climate have global impact
 s and\nrequire mitigation measures that have a global effect\, eg in reduc
 ed green house gas emissions. Serious influences are also caused on region
 al and local scales\, such as desertification\, aerosol pollution and urba
 n heat islands. Adaptation policies have to deal with the impacts on socie
 ty of climatic and environmental hazards that occur on local and regional 
 scales. These tend to be strongest where there are pronounced orographic f
 eatures and strong feedbacks between surface processes and the atmosphere.
  Local\nscale mitigation can also contribute to adaptation on a local scal
 e eg through forestation and sustainable urbanization-on the mega city sca
 le.(see\nhttp://ams.confex.com/ams/89annual/techprogram/session_22956.htm)
 .\nPredictions of global climate change also have to consider upscale\npro
 cesses where both the variability and long term changes at a regional scal
 e are having global effects\, such as ice and perma frost melting in polar
  regions. The application of local mesoscale numerical models and idealize
 d flow studies provide insights about these mechanisms beyond those of cur
 rent global climate models. They can provide tools for examining combined 
 effects of mitigation and adaptation measures.\n\nA policy map\, together 
 with system modeling\, can be used to explore climate strategies by relati
 ng how the inputs (physical facilities\, natural resources\, and human cap
 acity/response/feedback) can be optimally applied\nto achieve separately o
 r together -by integration- the double objectives of (i) mitigation throug
 h non-fossil energy and conservation and (ii) adaptation through resilienc
 e against climatic and environmental hazards\, and through long-term susta
 inability. These need to be achieved on appropriate time scales while ensu
 ring nation-wide and international stability.\n\n\nPROFESSOR JULIAN HUNT\,
  CB\, MA\, PhD\, FIMA\, FRS\n\nProfessor Hunt's current position is Visiti
 ng Fellow of the Malaysian\nCommonwealth Studies Centre in Cambridge Unive
 rsity. He is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge\, Honorary Professor in
  the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics\, Cambridge
 \, J.M. Burgers visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology\,
  Visiting Professor at Arizona State University\, Pierre Fermat Visiting P
 rofessor in Toulouse\, and Academic Director of the Lighthill Risk Network
 . He is Emeritus Professor of Climate Modelling in the Department of Earth
  Sciences\, and Honorary\nProfessor of Mathematics at University College L
 ondon. He was\nDirector-General and Chief Executive of the Meteorological 
 Office from 1992-1997\, and was created a Baron in the House of Lords (wit
 h the title Lord Hunt of Chesterton) in May 2000.\n\nProfessor Hunt's rece
 nt research has been on mesoscale and meteorology\, policy questions about
  environmental and climate change\, and his studies have been applied to m
 any problems in environmental fluid dynamics including building design\, t
 he siting of wind-energy generators and air pollution. He has been a consu
 ltant to UK and international companies and government departments\, and\,
  with colleagues\, formed Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd
  (CERC) which developed environmental software including a new air polluti
 on dispersion model\, now the standard model for the UK Environment Agency
 .\n\n
LOCATION:St Edmund’s College\, Garden Room
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