Professor James Renwick
Head of School of Geography, Wellington, NZ
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James has nearly four decades’ experience in weather and climate research. His main field is large-scale climate variability and climate change, including the El Niño-Southern Oscillation cycle, the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds, and the impacts of climate variability and change on the Pacific, New Zealand and the Antarctic. James was a lead author for the last two Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and is a Coordinating Lead Author for the new 6th IPCC Assessment. He was awarded the Prime Minister’s 2018 prize for Science Communication.
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Climate Change: What does it mean for our future?
The changing climate is reshaping the world around us, redrawing coastlines and altering the nature of weather extremes. How much more change the globe experiences this century and beyond will determine much about the future of human society, and will be defined by our actions over the coming few decades. This presentation will go over the basics of the science of climate change and will summarise how things have changed so far. The consequences of different levels of future change will be discussed, including an outline of health impacts. I will wrap up with a summary of what needs to be done to stop the warming, within New Zealand and globally.
The changing climate is reshaping the world around us, redrawing coastlines and altering the nature of weather extremes. How much more change the globe experiences this century and beyond will determine much about the future of human society, and will be defined by our actions over the coming few decades. This presentation will go over the basics of the science of climate change and will summarise how things have changed so far. The consequences of different levels of future change will be discussed, including an outline of health impacts. I will wrap up with a summary of what needs to be done to stop the warming, within New Zealand and globally.