The Culture and Dialogue of Climate Change

Summary:

Interview with Professor Chris Rapley of the British Antarctic Survey

Website:

http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/Chris_Rapley.pdf

Language:

English

Description:

Prof. Chris Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey was not invited to Denver recently by eminent local American scientists seeking international academic dialogue on a controversial subject. Rather, he came for Mayor Hickenlooper and the Museum of Contemporary Arts' "Creative Acts That Matter".

He gave a lecture to an audience, which as it turned out,did include many other scientists and a few dozen laymen at the Denver Museum of History and Science.

Rapley maintains that, while there is in some quarters discussion about the general warming of the earth as a whole, there is strong, scientifically verifiable evidence for the warming of the Antarctic, Siberia and Alaska. It is, he believes, the resulting polar melting from the warming of the Antarctic in particular that is driving up the ocean currents of the world.
It is this which influences climate far up into our Northern Hemisphere.

But whether you agree with his interpretation of the science or not, and many don't, Rapley is unusual for the time he spends, as one of the top scientists in his field, engaging the interest of the general public as a whole. This, he believes, is an obligation and a challenge which all scientists everywhere who love their profession should rise to, as he explained recently to Claudia Cragg. He also discusses the wisdom and application of the Kyoto Protocol, Mainland China and India's effects on and attitudes to ecology and the Arctic Wildlife Reserve.

Picture by Natalia Venturini & Javier Llorente Palao from:
http://archivo.greenpeace.org/Clima/kioto.htm
 

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