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SUMMARY:Extreme Weather - Dr Emily Shuckburgh\, BAS
DTSTART:20170120T173000Z
DTEND:20170120T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:The past year\, 2016\, was the warmest globally in records str
 etching back to 1850. The second warmest year was 2015 and the third warme
 st 2014. In recent years we have seen weather records being broken more an
 d more often with severe heatwaves\, floods and other extreme weather arou
 nd the world. The risk of some of these extreme weather events has been sh
 own to have increased as a consequence of climate change linked to human a
 ctivities. In this talk I will discuss the scientific evidence surrounding
  the causes and consequences of climate change and the prospects for the f
 uture. Dr Shuckburgh is co-author of a new Ladybird book on Climate Change
  which will be published in January 2017. The book has been written with c
 o-authors HRH The Prince of Wales and  Tony Juniper\, former Executive Dir
 ector of Friends of the Earth.\n\nBiography\n\nDr Emily Shuckburgh is a cl
 imate scientist and is deputy head of the Polar Oceans Team at the British
  Antarctic Survey\, which is focused on understanding the role of the pola
 r oceans in the global climate system. She holds a number of positions at 
 the University of Cambridge (fellow of Darwin College\, member of the Facu
 lty of Mathematics\, associate of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change 
 Mitigation Research\, associate fellow of the Centre for Science and Polic
 y\, member of the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment a
 nd fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership). In th
 e past she has worked at Ecole Normal Superieure in Paris and at MIT. She 
 is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and co-chair of their Clim
 ate Science Communications Group\, a trustee of the Campaign for Science a
 nd Engineering and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Is
 aac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. She has also acted as an a
 dvisor to the UK Government on behalf of the Natural Envrionment Research 
 Council.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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