Carolina Climate Change Seminar to hold talks Oct. 23-24

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences will host the seventh annual Carolina Climate Change Seminar Oct. 23-24 on campus.

The public seminar features Inez Fung from the University of California, Berkeley and is titled Carbon Dioxide from Space: Towards Climate Treaty Verification. It will take place on Thursday, Oct. 23, at the FedEx Global Education Center Nelson Mandela Auditorium and a reception will follow in the lobby.

Fung is a distinguished member of the National Academy of Sciences and a contributor to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change.

On Friday, Oct. 24, in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium, a technical talk titled Water, Plant and Climate: Assessing the Climatic Impacts of Afforestation.

Both engagements are free to the public.

For more information: http://www.geosci.unc.edu/page/7th-annual-carolina-climate-change.