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Though he cracked jokes and pointed enthusiastically at vibrant red, spiking temperature graphs, Richard B. Alley, a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, ended his presentation at yesterday’s Harvard climate change symposium with a grave warning...
...coordination with a meeting of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, the Harvard University Center for the Environment held a symposium called “Climate Change: A Perspective from the Arctic” at the Northwest Science Building yesterday...
...symposium featured a series of short lectures by preeminent scholars and researchers, including Harvard professors Daniel P. Schrag, James J. McCarthy, Peter J. Huybers, and James G. Anderson...
McCarthy began with an overview of the current climatic changes occurring in the Arctic, Huybers followed with a summary of Arctic climate variations during the past three decades, and Anderson closed the symposium with an exploration of Greenland’s future role in climate change...
During the conference, several other speakers referred to the rise of breast cancer in the developing world as the “unforeseen problem.” According to information packets distributed to symposium attendees, breast cancer is often viewed as a disease affecting only older women from wealthier, developed countries. “Breast cancer, left untreated, is a death sentence,” said Amy C. Sievers, a Dana Farber physician...