Public Lecture: Hot Air and Unmitigated Disasters


Dr. Barry Smit, professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change at the University of Guelph, will be speaking at McMaster Innovation Park, as part of the McMaster Centre for Climate Change 2013 Speaker Series.

Dr. Smit’s talk, Hot Air and Unmitigated Disasters: The Fractured Science and Politics of Climate Change, will outline the physical and human processes underlying climate change and its implications for the environment and development by reviewing the roles of science and politics in national and international policy responses.

The MCCC Speakers Series is sponsored by the RBC Blue Water Program and McMaster University.