You are here

Videos

These presentations represent talks given by scientists at past AGCI workshops and can be technical in nature.
To view presentations by workshop, please visit our AGCI Science Sessions page
To view video presentations intended for all audiences, try browsing our Public Lectures

This video was pulled at random from more than 1700 videos from 27 years of workshops.

  • Abrupt Climate Change and the Future of Humanity

    Date: 
    Wednesday, July 13, 2005
    Authored by: 

    This Walter Orr Roberts Public Lecture features award winning science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who discusses abrupt climate change and the paradigm shift that accompanies this new scientific concept. In addition to presenting the evidence for abrupt climate change, Robinson comments on the resistance within the scientific community and society at large to climate change theories. He posits that a culture war between capitalism and science is currently waging and warns the outcome could have tremendous effects for the future of mankind. In his conclusion, Robinson praises the ethical values of the scientific community and suggests that society as a whole look to the scientific method as a means for political organization.

    Tags: 
    • Kuhn
    • paradigm
    • shift
    • abrupt
    • climate
    • change
    • normal
    • science
    • capitalism
    • global
    • warming skeptics
    • technology
    • gulf
    • stream

Pages