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SUMMARY:Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Tree
 s in the Wrong Places - Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya\, The George Washington 
 University
DTSTART:20240521T140000Z
DTEND:20240521T150000Z
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CONTACT:Vichawan (Print) Sakulsupich
DESCRIPTION:Why do we grow the wrong trees in the wrong places? This paper
  investigates this through the REDD+ initiatives under the UNFCCC that adv
 ocated for planting trees in developing countries to cool down our global 
 temperature. The intuition behind this initiative\, that growing trees in 
 the tropics are good for fighting climate change\, was naturalized by main
 stream climate science in the Global North. Yet\, as biologists point out\
 , trees especially in the tropics emit gases known as BVOCs that can furth
 er exacerbate global warming. In other words\, planting an enormous number
  of inappropriate species of trees in the tropics can even hurt rather tha
 n help the earth. This is surprising: why\, given the espoused scientific 
 commitment to pluralism as well as the interdisciplinary and global nature
  of climate change\, are some scientific perspectives\, especially biologi
 sts from the Global South\, not well integrated into mainstream climate sc
 ience? I show that rendering the climate as a singular legible entity from
  a god’s eye view also erects structural barriers to more heterogenous s
 cientific studies of local ecologies from being integrated. Moreover\, bec
 ause models of the climate are based on environmental assumptions and tool
 s of the Global North\, they struggle to incorporate knowledge where these
  assumptions do not hold – especially in the Global South\, where trees 
 are more likely to emit gases that can exacerbate climate change – leadi
 ng to international policies that ironically harms\, rather than helps\, t
 he planet. I illustrate these challenges to integrating knowledge on BVOCs
  into mainstream climate models based on 48 interviews with climate scient
 ists in both the Global North and Global South\, as well as fieldwork base
 d in climate science labs in the U.S. and Thailand.\n\n-------------------
 -----------------------------------------\n\nTopic: CAS Seminar: Jittip Mo
 ngkolnchaiarunya\nTime: May 21\, 2024 03:00 PM London\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting
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LOCATION:Chemistry Dept\, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom
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