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Searching for Answers on a Warming Planet: Why We May Need Climate Engineering

Simon Nicholson, Director of the Global Environmental Politics program in the School of International Service and co-founder of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, will discuss a range of other climate engineering or “geoengineering” schemes which are gaining increasing visibility and credibility as options for tackling climate change. What, though, is to be made of such …

Inaugural UniverCity Year final presentation

The public is invited to an event focusing on the entire UniverCity Year (UCY) and all its projects. The presentation will be Wednesday August 16th, 7 PM in the Monona Public Library – Municipal Room. UCY program director Jason Vargo, assistant scientist with the Nelson Institute and the Global Health Institute UW-Madison, will lead the …