2007 Press Releases
"Whence and Whither the Weather? - The World's Changing Climate"
Climate change, nuclear power, cancer, eugenics under the Third Reich,
science and God and the effects of low level radiation are among the
topics to be discussed during the 2007 Faculty of Science Public
Lecture Series at University College Cork (UCC).
Organised by Professor William Reville of the Faculty of Science, UCC,
the highly popular lecture series, which commences on Wednesday, 17th
January continues weekly until 28th March 2007.
The series begins with meteorologist, Dr Brendan McWilliams whose
lecture titled "Whence and Whither the Weather? - The World's Changing
Climate" will trace the significant changes that have taken place in
the climate of our planet, and of our part of Europe, in prehistoric,
historic and modern times, and will briefly outline the reasons for
this natural variability. In recent decades, however, the focus has
been on the possible influence of human activities on climate, and the
lecture will summarise the current scientific consensus, and the likely
consequences for Ireland in the present century.
Brendan McWilliams is a meteorologist, and for the past 18 years has
written the daily Weather Eye column in The Irish Times. He is a
graduate of UCC and a former Deputy Director of Met Éireann. In the
early 1990s he served as Director of the Programme of Expert Studies on
Climate Change on behalf of the Department of the Environment, and from
1998-2000 he was a Member of EU Fifth Framework Programme External
Advisory Group on Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity. More
recently, until 2004, he has been a Director and member of the
Management Board of EUMETSAT, the European Meteorological Satellite
Organisation in Darmstadt, Germany.
The lecture will take place at UCC's Boole Lecture Theatre 4 at 8pm on Wednesday, 17th January.
Admission is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.
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