Climate Change

Earth Week to feature hands-on activities and events

Taking place April 21-27, Earth Week events include origami with bioplastics, birding, networking, a culinary session, and more.

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Barrage of news shows climate change policy is rapidly shifting under Trump administration

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the administration’s activities related to climate change.

A climate map showing temperatures and contours.

Using climate modeling to guide global economic and political decisions

Irina Marinov, associate professor in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Earth and Environmental Science, explains how climate modeling works and the information these models provide.

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A panel of speakers seated at Perry World House.

How climate change impacts food security

Perry World House’s “Feeding a Climate-Changed World” conference brought together climate experts to discuss democracy, human rights, and the geopolitics of food security.

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Why climate change is a national security threat

Scott Moore of the School of Art & Sciences says that intensifying climate change places stress on food systems, worsens existing tensions within countries, and exacerbates the scale of extremist or terrorist threats.

Weitzman and Netter Center to tackle urban heat in West Philadelphia

A collaboration between the Thermal Architecture Lab at Penn’s Weitzman School of Design, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and the Annenberg School has been awarded an Environmental Protection Agency Thriving Communities Grant for $137,000 to work with William L. Sayre High School, a University-Assisted Community School, on measurement of urban heat and solution design.

Why we’re ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that a critical warming threshold will be passed in little more than a decade if society continues on its current course.

Three people seated at a table discussing the climate.

Innovation in climate education

The Project-Based Learning for Global Climate Justice Program is a collaboration with Penn’s Graduate School of Education and 70 educators around Asia, Africa, and Europe working together on a K-12 education program that emphasizes climate change and social inequalities.

In a reversal, plans for U.S. natural gas power grow, complicating progress on climate

John Quigley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that the construction of every new natural gas plant is a setback for climate goals.

EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the latest form of climate denial is to pretend climate change isn’t a threat rather than denying that it’s happening.

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