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X-WR-CALNAME:Ram Ramanathan | Bouncing Back From the Climate Crisis
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We are now witnessing large-scale amplification of wa
 rming-driven extreme weather events\, impacting close to 5 billion people.
  Fossil fuels\, the major source of warming\, are still contributing more 
 than  78% of global energy. I will describe a new approach for bouncing ba
 ck from the crisis cleaner\, healthier\, and stronger. It will target clim
 ate resilience\, built on three pillars: Mitigation\, Adaptation\, and Soc
 ietal transformation. For societal transformation\, I will describe ideas 
 considered by social scientists to bring more Americans in favor of urgent
  climate actions. These involve narrative changes: from climate change to 
 public health to get more public support\; individual actions such as avoi
 ding waste\; pivot from short-termism to long-term co-benefits such as a c
 leaner and more technologically advanced America\; among several others. A
 lliance with local to regional faith leaders should be explored to unpack 
 climate change from all the other issues that have divided our Nation.\n\n
 Bio: Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effect of
  CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) in 1975 and showed that a ton each of CFC-11 a
 nd CFC-12 has more global warming effect than 10\,000 tons of CO2. This di
 scovery established the now-accepted fact that non-CO2 gases are a major c
 ontributor to planetary warming and also enabled the Montreal Protocol to 
 become the first successful climate mitigation policy. For this work\, he 
 was awarded the 2009 Tyler Prize by Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland. In 19
 80\, Madden and Ramanathan were the first to make a statistical prediction
  that global warming will be detected above the background noise by 2000\,
  a prediction which was verified by the IPCC in 2001. He led a NASA study 
 with its climate satellite to show that clouds had a net cooling effect on
  the planet and quantified the radiation interactions with water vapor and
  its amplification of CO2 warming. He led international field campaigns an
 d developed unmanned aircraft platforms for tracking brown cloud pollution
  worldwide. His work has led to numerous policies including the formation 
 of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition by the United Nations to reduce sho
 rt-lived climate pollutants (HFCs\; Methane\; Black Carbon and Ozone).\n\n
  \n\nThis event is presented as part of the 2023 Perspectives on the Clima
 te Change Challenge Seminar Series:\n\nMost Mondays\, Spring Semester 2023
 \, 2:45-4:00pm(via Zoom OR In person in 155 Olin Hall)This university-wide
  seminar series is open to the public\, and provides important views on th
 e critical issue of climate change\, drawing from many perspectives and di
 sciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview 
 of the science of climate change and climate change models\, the implicati
 ons for agriculture\, ecosystems\, and food systems\, and provide importan
 t economic\, ethical\, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is be
 ing organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmen
 tal Engineering and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
LOCATION:olin Hall\, 155
SUMMARY:Ram Ramanathan | Bouncing Back From the Climate Crisis
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