NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen will give the keynote talk via live interactve video feed at the “Getting to 350” workshop May 1-3.

PLEASE NOTE: The venue for the keynote address has changed to Mead Chapel, located on Hepburn Road, off College Street (Route 125)



MIDDLEBURY, Vt. ? Middlebury College will host a global climate change workshop sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation titled Getting to 350: Building Strategies for 21st Century Aspirations the weekend of May 1-3, under the direction of Luce Professor of International Environmental Economics Jonathan Isham. The public is invited to a keynote address by NASA climatologist James Hansen, via live video feed, on Friday evening, May 1 at 7 p.m. in Mead Chapel, located on Hepburn Road off College Street (Route 125). Hansen’s address and the workshop are free and open to the public. Reservations for the workshop are required.

VIDEO:
 
James Hansen on 60 Minutes April 26

Jon Isham discusses 350 workshop (3:05)

Dr. Hansen’s keynote talk on Friday night will be centered on the idea that if “humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,” the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide must be reduced to 350 parts per million or lower. According to climate scientists, the current global mean concentration of CO2 is 387 parts per million (ppm), already a dangerously high level, and on a rapid increasing trajectory. Hansen and colleagues brought the 350 ppm recommendation to light last year in a study published in The Open Atmospheric Science Journal.

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