2007 Press Releases

09 Jan 2007

"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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