Our Grandchildren’s Planet: Can Climate Intervention Avert Global Catastrophe? (4 sessions)

Learn about the underlying causes of the climate crisis and consider courses of action. Information will be shared about the climate system, the nature & consequences of global warming, and strategies to repair the climate and the biosphere. April 18: Fossil fuel emissions, global warming, and Earth’s climate history; April 25 The carbon cycle, Earth’s energy imbalance, and temperature thresholds; May 2:Diversity of public responses; May 9 Emissions reduction, an essential but inadequate strategy. (Class maximum 12)

Instructor: Stephen Penningroth

Stephen Penningroth, (B.A. German Literature, Brown; Ph.D. Biochemical Sciences, Princeton), after 20 years as Assoc. Prof. of Pharmacology at the N.J. University of Medicine & Dentistry and Senior Lecturer in Toxicology at Cornell, founded the Community Science Institute in Ithaca serving as Exec. Dir. until 2022. He is the author of “Essentials of Toxic Chemical Risk: Science and Society” and over two dozen articles on cell motility, water quality and risk management.