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As global warming causes far-reaching shifts in weather and temperature, it
may also disrupt balances of power around the world.
“No one knows for certain how fast the climate is changing and what all the
physical effects will be,” says Associate Professor of Government Daryl Press.
“However, we have strong reasons to believe that the changes will bring about
shifts that could lead to conflict within states and between them.”
Those scenarios will be at the center of a lecture series this academic year
organized by Press and sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for
International Understanding titled, “Climate Change and National Security.”
The series will open with a talk on Monday, Oct.1, at 4:30 p.m., in Filene
Auditorium, Moore Hall, by Inuuteq Holm Olsen, deputy minister for
foreign affairs for Greenland. Olsen will talk about how climate change has
been affecting Greenland and what that might tell us about what global
warming worldwide.
The series also will include climatologist Stephen H. Schneider, a
biological science professor at Stanford University; former National Science
Foundation Director Rita Colwell; and Lawson Brigham, deputy director and
Alaska office director, U.S. Arctic Research Commission. The series will
conclude in the spring with a still-to-be scheduled panel focusing on policy
options for combating climate change or mitigating its consequences.
BY REBECCA BAILEY
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