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Have your say on climate change: discuss with experts from King’s College

15 October 2008

Professor John Young

King’s College, Cambridge, has launched a new online forum on climate change that will allow users to quiz experts, comment on others views and have their own say on the climate.

The first 25 questions posted to the forum will be answered by a internationally-renowned experts who recently participated in a King's College debate about climate change.

The panel discussion, 'Climate Change: Insight from King's', was held in London for fellows and alumni of the college on 30 September. Distinguished academics from King's, including Honorary Fellow Martin Rees, discussed highlights stemming from their research and explored the scientific, economic and political aspects of climate change. Rees reminded the audience that UK citizens each need to reduce their carbon footprint from the current average of 10 tonnes per person per year to just two.

You can access the discussion and listen to the presentations, as well as see pictures, on the King's College website or on the University of Cambridge's new iTunesU service from 24 October.

The panel included Lord Martin Rees (President of the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal), John Young (Professor of Applied Thermodynamics), Alexander Orlov (Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York) and King's alumnus Michael Grubb (Chief Economist at the UK Carbon Trust and member of the independent Committee on Climate Change).

More than 300 University of Cambridge lectures, short films and interviews can now be downloaded to a computer near you, simply by launching iTunes. Accessing iTunesU, an area of the iTunes store offering free educational content, users from across the globe are able to download free material from some of the University's top academics as well as other world-leading experts 24 hours a day. All of the content is playable on a Mac or PC and can be synched to an iPod or iPhone.

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