The lecture will outline the consequences associated with Earth’s changing climate, and will address approaches to mitigation and adaptation in the coming decades.

Henry Pollack , is an Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Michigan. He has served on many advisory panels for the National Science Foundation and the National Research Council. He has testified before the National Academy of Science and U.S. Senate committees, and provided briefings about climate change to Congress and the White House. He was a contributing author to the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th
Assessment Report. He is a scientific advisor to former Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. He has authored “Uncertain Science. . .Uncertain World” in which he discusses scientific uncertainty and the role it plays in the formulation of public policy and “World Without Ice” in which he describes the role of ice in shaping earth’s landscape and climate, and the likely fate of the cryosphere in the face of continued warming.

This is the last in the series of nine Distinguished Lectures.