Host Sam Hopkins Invites you to hear Classmates Tim Wirth & John Harte
discuss the Science of Climate Change, and policy prospects for the Future: 

The Challenges of Climate Change

They have worked together on many issues, Including clean air and acid rain. They shared the podium in a climate discussion at our last Class Reunion, and have joined together on the Ad Hoc Committee for Harvard Divest.    

Tim has been working on the climate issue for nearly forty years. In the Senate Tim chaired the landmark Hansen hearing in 1988, and introduced the first comprehensive climate legislation soon thereafter.  He was a lead member of the Senate delegation to the Earth Summit in 1990, and soon thereafter was named Undersecretary of State with responsibilities that included climate issues. He chaired the US delegation for the Kyoto protocol, and was the lead US negotiator until he left the government to help Ted Turner set up the United Nations Foundation.  The foundation played a major role in the lead up to the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. Tim has helped lead the broad student, faculty and alumni coalition advocating for Harvard to divest from fossil fuels, and as a former Overseer, he is supporting Harvard Forward and the petition candidates for the Board of Overseers. 

John Harte is a theoretical physicist turned ecologist.  His research over the past 5 decades on acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity has had a major influence both within the scientific community and on policy and legislation.  He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society, and is a co-recipient of a 2006 George Polk award in investigative journalism. He is an elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, the Ecological society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He has also served on six National Academy of Sciences Committees and has authored over 250 scientific publications, including eight books, one of which, "Consider a Spherical Cow" is a widely used textbook on environmental modeling.

Saturday, February 13^th, from 1 pm to 3 pm Eastern

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