October 7, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Cristina Diaz
Media and Community Relations Manager
215.753.3684
Philadelphia, PA- Chestnut Hill College’s Institute for Religion and Sciences welcomes Michael Mann, Ph.D., distinguished professor of meteorology and director of Earth System Science Center, on Oct. 19, at Commonwealth Chateau, SugarLoaf Campus at 7 p.m.
Mann will deliver the lecture “Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change.” This lecture will begin with a review of the now-solid evidence for human influence on the climate of recent decades. Such evidence includes instrumental measures available for the past two centuries, paleoclimate observations spanning more than a millennium, and comparisons of the predictions from computer models with observed patterns of climate change. The lecture will then address likely future impacts of human-induced climate change including possible influences on sea level rise, severe weather and water supply. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of solutions to the climate change problem.
Dr. Mann’s research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth’s climate system. He contributed to the third intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Science Frontiers in Science. A recipient of many awards, Mann is the author of Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming (2008) and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (2012).
This lecture is free and open to the public. Contact Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, Ph.D. at 215.248.7197 or kduffy@chc.edu for more information.
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Celebrating more than 90 years of tradition and risk, Chestnut Hill College is a four-year coed Catholic college in the Ignatian tradition that offers a traditional liberal arts undergraduate program as well as accelerated undergraduate degrees, master’s and doctoral programs. The College has been rated by US News & World Report as among the best regional universities in the North, as among the best Northeastern colleges by The Princeton Review, and has been classified as selective by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Since 1924, the College has offered a rigorous curriculum that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to prepare students for life’s challenges by helping them to grow intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and socially.
