[Mitworld] New: Schneider on Climate Forecasting, Zimbardo on "The Lucifer Effect"

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 43 | July 11, 2007
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[UNCERTAINTIES IN CLIMATE FORECASTS:
 CAUSES, MAGNITUDES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS]

SPEAKER:
Stephen H. Schneider
Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental
Studies
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/461/>

[QUOTE]
"Damages that will occur are highly differential: melting Arctic sea ice
will probably save the fishing industry $50 million a year in having
shorter routes but it will wreck the culture of the Inuits, established
over 5,000 years, or destroy the polar bear ecoysystem."
--Stephen H. Schneider


EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science
<http://web.mit.edu/cgcs/www/>

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[THE LUCIFER EFFECT: UNDERSTANDING HOW GOOD PEOPLE TURN EVIL]

SPEAKER:
Philip Zimbardo
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/459/>

[QUOTE]
"All evil begins with a big lie."
--Philip Zimbardo


EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum <http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/>

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