Climate Change Yale School of Forestry

Richard Kerr, Senior News Writer, Science Magazine, speaks on the Global Warming Crisis and his thoughts on its future.

Wealthy countries that emit most of the greenhouse gases should compensate poor countries for the damage inflicted by climate change.

Professor Florencia Montagnini discusses Climate Change and Global Policy in Spanish.

Nobel Laureate Dr. R. K. Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, addresses the Governors' Climate Change Conference, hosted by Yale. This Conference reviews state-level programs to combat global climate change and to develop a strategy for future action.

The gathering will also celebrate the centennial of President Theodore Roosevelt’s landmark 1908 Conference of Governors, which launched the modern conservation movement.

Governors who plan to attend the conference include M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut, Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Jon Corzine of New Jersey, and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. Quebec Premier Jean Charest will also be present.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses the Conference of Governors on Climate Change, hosted by Yale University on April 17 and 18th.

Freeman Dyson, Princeton physicist, has been roundly criticized for insisting global warming is not an urgent problem. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Dyson explains his iconoclastic views and why he believes they have stirred such controversy.