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Dear Sust-Mar Friends, I wanted to let you know that the Society for Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility (CESR) will not be able to have a People & Planet Fair this year due to renovations at the Student Union Building. We will be organizing other events throughout the year and will post them to Sust-Mar as always. For more information about CESR, please visit our web site at: http://is2.dal.ca/~cesr I also wanted to bring to your attention these upcoming free Killam lectures on climate change that will take place at Dalhousie University next month. Please read the descriptions below. For more information about these not-to-miss lectures organized by the university, please visit: http://www.dalgrad.dal.ca/killamlectures/ * Global Warming: How Uncertain is the Look into the Future? Speaker: Dr. Thomas Stocker Wednesday, 09 Oct 2002, 8:00 pm Ondaatje Auditorium, McCain Building, Dalhousie University Do scientists understand the climate system well enough to support the IPCC prediction that the global mean temperature will rise between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees C by the year 2100? The latest climate-system models give a clear message: most of the observed warming over the last fifty years is attributable to human activities. The lecture will explore the nature of uncertainties in such climate modelling, as well as some key implications of unabated warming in northern regions. Dr. Thomas Stocker is Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Physics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He studied environmental physics at ETH Zurich and was a postdoctoral fellow at University College (London), McGi11 University, and Columbia University. In his current research, he develops climate-system models to understand past and future climate changes at time scales of decades to hundreds of thousands of years. Dr. Stocker recently served as a Coordinating Lead Author and Contributor for the Third Assessment Report (2001) of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. * Cumulative Effects of Climate Change and Human Use on Freshwater Communities Speaker: Dr. David Schindler Tuesday, 15 Oct 2002, 8:00 pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Dalhousie Arts Centre, Dalhousie University Climate warming and human uses will lead to severe problems with freshwater quantity, quality and biodiversity. With warmer air and little change in precipitation, the increased evaporation can lead to large decreases in river flows. Concomitantly, lake levels decline, wetlands dry up, and groundwater availability declines. Associated water quality problems include eutrophication, acidification, exposure to UV radiation, pollution with pathogens and toxins, and invasions of alien species. Destruction of wetlands and riparian areas, along with other land-use changes, will further exacerbate the freshwater problem. Comprehensive watershed planning and water conservation measures are urgently needed to protect freshwaters in the remainder of the 21st century. Dr. David Schindler is Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. From 1968 to 1989, he directed the Experimental Lakes Project in Northwestern Ontario, conducting interdisciplinary research on the effects of eutrophication, acid rain, climate change and other human insults on boreal aquatic ecosystems. Dr. Schindler now focuses his research on effects of climate warming, alien fish stocks, airborne contaminants and other human impacts on freshwaters of the Rocky Mountains. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Volvo International Environment Prize in 1998 and the NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. In addition, he holds seven honorary doctorates from Canadian and US universities. * Climate Change: Does Global Warming Warrant a Health Warning? Speaker: Dr. Tony McMichael Wednesday, 23 Oct 2002, 8:00 pm Ondaatje Auditorium, McCain Building, Dalhousie University What consequences might we expect for human health due to continued global warming? While humans are better buffered against environmental stressors than any other species, we are still vulnerable to the wide spectrum of environmental hazards influenced by climate change. The lecture will touch on a wide range of human-health impacts ranging from severe weather events, heat waves, infectious diseases and altered water quality, to economic dislocation and population displacement. Most of the health impacts will be adverse. Adaptive policies and practices are needed immediately to lessen human vulnerability to the potential ravages of climate change. Dr. Tony McMichael studied medicine at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Today he is Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. From 1994 to 2001, he was Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His current research deals with occupational diseases, diet and cancer, and environmental health hazards. Since 1994, Dr. McMichael has chaired the assessment of human-health risks for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Enjoy! Tamara Lorincz Chair of the Society for Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility (CESR) Web site: http://is2.dal.ca/~cesr Email: cesr@is2.dal.ca -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- SUST-MAR TIP: subscription management commands go to majordomo@chebucto.ca CBC enviro news-briefs follow: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- INFORMATION ACT WILL NO LONGER REVEAL ALL PROVINCIAL SECRETS Nova Scotia's minister of Justice Michael Baker is denying the Hamm government is trying to keep documents from the public. Cabinet recently added a list of definitions for the types of documents that should be released under the province's freedom of information law. 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