Andrew Weaver

Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Co-winner of Nobel Peace Prize)

Keeping Our Cool: Climate Change: The Scale of the Problem, the Path to the Solution

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Andrew Weaver is one of the world's foremost climate scientists. He was a lead author in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- the group that, with Al Gore, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Weaver's clear-eyed new book, Keeping Our Cool, has re-energized, so to speak, a new generation of discussions on climate change and sustainability. David Suzuki calls it "the final alarm that galvanizes us to move onto a different energy path of renewables and efficiency."

What sets Weaver apart from most noted climate change speakers is his groundbreaking work in the field -- in the trenches -- of climate science. He is Canada Research Chair in climate modeling and analysis at the University of Victoria, and has authored or coauthored nearly two hundred peer-reviewed studies in climate, earth science, policy, and education journals. He was chief editor of the Journal of Climate from 2005-2009. He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the Order of British Columbia, and one of the top 20 scientists in Canada under the age of 40.

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Keeping Our Cool: Climate Change: The Scale of the Problem, the Path to the Solution

Based on Keeping Our Cool, which Thomas Homer-Dixon calls "the best single book on our climate crisis and what [Canadians] should do about it," this talk breathes urgent life into the most important discussion of our lifetime. Drawing on his bedrock understanding of climate science, Weaver, engaging and straightforward, shows you what truly is at stake: he frames our current climate within the context of the last 800,000 years; he looks at what the next century holds; and he clarifies public confusion in a frank, authoritative manner. He is unafraid to speak about the policies needed to reduce greenhouse emissions, and about the efforts -- especially from government and citizens -- needed to make them a reality. A crucial, necessary talk from the next generation of climate science.

Communicating Science: Why It Matters and How To Do It

"Ineffective science communication results in ineffective science," Andrew Weaver says. And he should know. For helping bring the world's attention, fully and finally, to the very real threat of climate change, he shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Weaver has dedicated his career not only to his research, but also to making sure that the science is clearly understood by the public, by the media and by policy makers -- not just a choir of jargon-spouting scientists. In this talk, he shows us why science is often so poorly communicated, why this has disastrous consequences, how to bridge the gap in understanding between science and the public, and why it is so vitally important to do so now. Drawing on his years of experience reaching out to broad audiences, he charts the tumultuous territory of effective, efficient and accurate communication and shows you how to craft the same for your own industry.

(Also available as a talk on communicating the science of climate change to a general audience.)

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