Royal Norwegian Embassy
Clean Air - Cool Planet, Norwegian Embassy lead climate symposia
In Chicago and Racine, WI, Clean Air-Cool Planet and the Royal Norwegian Embassy are teaming up to present the latest information on the threat of Arctic warming and its global impacts.
The Arctic is experiencing rapid warming and melting, and new science indicates that this process will likely produce profound affects for the rest of the globe in the coming decades.
To bring the latest science and information about those impacts to the Midwest and plains, Clean Air-Cool Planet teamed up with the Royal Norwegian Embassy to create two scientific symposia examining warming and melting, feedbacks, and impacts on wildlife in the Arctic region.
In Chicago, partnering the Midwest office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a morning roundtable will focus on the challenges and opportunities facing the United States and the international community regarding the rapidly warming Arctic climate.
This unique event will feature a panel of prominent experts, moderated by His Excellency Wegger Chr. Strommen, Ambassador of Norway to the United States, discussing how events in the Arctic region foretell potentially catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate systems.
The panel includes:
- Dr. Eugenie Euskirchen, Research Assistant Professor of Terrestrial Ecology at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, presenting on how documented changes in climate influence the arctic terrestrial ecosystems, and how these changes then feedback to influence the climate.
- Dr. Nalan Koc, Director of the Norwegian Center for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems in Tromso, Norway, discussing the accelerated warming and melting in the Arctic ice region.
- Adam Markham, Chief Executive Officer of Clean Air-Cool Planet, talking about the effects of warming on Arctic ecosystems and potential catastrophic impacts on ice-dependent wildlife, including polar bears.
- Dr. R. Steven Nerem, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Science at the University of Colorado, presenting his work on current and projected sea level rise as result of the melting of land-based ice.
These experts will explain why the Arctic is in such imminent danger, how events in the Arctic region foretell potentially catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate systems, and why this transformation, brought on by a powerful regional warming trend associated with global climate change, is occurring much more rapidly than scientists predicted.
An afternoon session, in partnership with the Johnson Foundation and hosted at its Wingspread Center in Racine, Wisconsin, will feature the same panel.