Climate scientist James Hansen visits April 21

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James Hansen

Climate scientist and activist James Hansen will visit the RIT campus later this month to talk to students in the special topics Climate Change class about the urgency of reversing the energy imbalance.

Hansen will present his talk, “Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling and Modern Observations that 2° C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous,” at 12:30 p.m. on April 21 in Webb Auditorium in Booth Hall. That event is free and open to RIT faculty, staff and students.

In one of the first climate hearings, in 1988, Hansen, a former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, testified before Congress about fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions, and dangers of the greenhouse effect.

“In addition to his scientific research on climate change, Jim Hansen was one of the early voices of worry on the severity of possible change,” said Matt Hoffman, associate professor in RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences. “He was the scientist responsible for one of the first analyses of the global atmospheric temperature from direct observations, and he has recently moved into activism for climate change awareness and action.”

Hansen will be in Rochester for the annual forum of the Sierra Club Rochester Regional Group. He will present “Climate, Energy and Intergenerational Justice,” at 6:30 p.m. at Monroe Community College. RIT is a sponsor of the event.

For more information, contact Matt Hoffman at mjhsma@rit.edu or Enid Cardinal at elcpro@rit.edu.