Climate Change Vol. 2

Lecture date: December 15, 2020. Aquarium President and CEO Dr. Peter Kareiva discusses human connections with nature and how increased access to nature will encourage more people to become environmental stewards.

Lecture date: October 15, 2020. Journalist and historian Jon Gertner discusses his book and Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet, a harbinger of climate change.

Lecture date: August 11, 2020. Jeffrey Bennett answers questions about the science of global warming, while showing that the solutions to this important problem are ones that people of all persuasions can agree on.

Lecture date: May 13, 2020. Richard Somerville presents a lecture to discuss the latest climate science, public perceptions, and how science can guide policymaking.

Lecture date: May 6, 2020. Historian Sunil Amrith discusses his book, Unruly Waters, in which he reimagines Asia’s history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas—and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers, and farmers who have sought to control them.

Lecture date: January 9, 2020. Dr. Thomas White discusses skepticism of climate change in the United States.

Lee McIntyre recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 8, 2019. McIntyre is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a lecturer in ethics at Harvard Extension School.

Lecture date: October 7, 2019. In a presentation co-sponsored by the Aquarium and The Nature Conservancy, experts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and France's University of Montpellier discuss sea level rise in Long Beach.

Lecture date: July 31, 2019. A panel of ocean experts discusses our changing ocean and potential solutions to support ocean health.

Lecture date: July 9, 2019. Xin Wang discusses human migration as a response to environmental change.