JISAO Lecture Series: Ron Sims





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JISAO Lecture Series 2008 -- Climate Change: A Wake Up Call

King County Executive Ron Sims

“Shared Prosperity in an Age of Global Warming: King County’s Vision for an Equitable Clean Energy Economy”
– Keynote lecture

Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Pacific Science Center, Eames IMAX Theater

Admission to each Eames IMAX lecture is $5.00. Admission is FREE to Faculty, Staff and Students of the University of Washington, Pacific Science Center Members, and Town Hall Members.

JISAO Lecture Series - 2008
In its inaugural lecture series the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) launches an annual event to bring science of local, regional, and global significance to the public. A leader in the environmental sciences, JISAO fosters collaborative research between the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in climate, ocean and fishery sciences. This year’s lecture series “Climate Change: A Wake Up Call” addresses the timely and critical issue of global warming.
Complete lecture series schedule

King County Executive Ron Sims will present his vision of how the Martin Luther King, Jr. County region can and must address the social, economic and health inequities of climate change impacts, and what King County government is doing to reduce these disparities in our communities.

Highlights will include:

Executive Sims' perspective on shared goals of wealth, equity and health in an age of global warming
An overview of how climate change impacts will affect our most vulnerable communities, and what King County is doing about it
How King County proposes to employ people who most need work in our most necessary climate change solutions, by building a regional clean energy economy that benefits everyone in our community



		NOAA Acknowledgment
	University of Washington School of Oceanography \| Atmospheric Sciences \| Aquatic and Fishery Sciences School of Marine Affairs \| Applied Physics Laboratory \| Program on Climate Change National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research \| PMEL \| NOAA Joint Institutes \|\| Fisheries \| NWFSC \| AFSC



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