ENTS Lecture Series Continues with an Economist’s View on Climate Change

Economist Gary Yohe, lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will present a lecture entitled “Stories from the Climate Wars: Insights and Lessons from the IPCC” on Monday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Boliou Hall Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

The IPCC, along with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, was the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Through the efforts of thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries who have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming, the IPCC has created an informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.

As an economist, the focus of Yohe’s research is the adaptation and potential damage of climate change, as well as its economic impact on both regional and global levels. An expert in climate change research as well as integrated assessment modelling, Yohe has published his research and findings in a wide variety of publications and books, including “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change” and “Microeconomics: Theory and Applications.” Yohe regularly advises the U.S. Government on climate control issues and has testified on behalf of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Energy Committee, and the Senate Banking Committee.

Yohe holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a PhD in Economics from Yale University. He is currently the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University.

Yohe’s appearance is part of a yearlong public lecture series on the topic of climate change sponsored by the Carleton College Environmental and Technology Studies (ENTS) program. Carleton’s ENTS program grew out of the conviction that the College has a responsibility to respond to the grave threats posed to natural ecosystems by patterns of human development. ENTS students and faculty seek to explore the relationships between human and nonhuman worlds with the intention of better understanding how these worlds interact and may coexist.

For more information or disability accommodations, contact ENTS educational associate Adam Smith at (507) 222-7018, or at smithad@carleton.edu.