Keeping a cool head
at a time of global warming

30th March 2009

A whole day devoted to climate change, to enable us to draw distinctions between facts and effects, data and interpretations, scientific conclusions and ethical positions, changes and catastrophes, global strategies and local actions.

SCIENCE AND ETHICS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: DATA, MODELS AND INTERPRETATIONS

Session I

WELCOME
Fiorenzo Galli General Director of the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
biography | speach
Yasuaki Hori President of Mitsubishi Electric, Italy branch
speach

PRESIDE
Giovanni Caprara Corriere della Sera’s scientific editorial office biography | speach

INTRODUCTION
Ignazio Tabacco Professor of Applied Geophysics, University of Milano
biography | speach

SPEAKERS
Giuseppe Orombelli Professor of Physical Geography and Geomorphology at the University of Milano-Bicocca – member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
biography and abstract | speach

Luca Mercalli President of the Italian Meteorological Society
biography and abstract | speach

Giancarlo Spezie Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Napoli Parthenope
biography and abstract | speach

Antonio Navarra President of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC)
biography and abstract | speach

Marco Mazzotti Professor of process engineering at ETH Zurich - coordinating lead author of the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2002-2005).
biography and abstract | speach

S. Fred Singer Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia
biography and abstract | speach

Robin Attfield Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University - International working party on environmental ethics, Unesco
biography and abstract | speach

Telmo Pievani Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Milan II – Bicocca
biography and abstract | speach

CLIMATE CHANGE BETWEEN GLOBAL VISION AND LOCAL ACTION: COSTS, STRATEGIES AND GOVERNMENTAL POLICIES

Session II

PRESIDE
Fiorenzo Galli General Director of the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci - Member of the Italian Expert Committee for the Development of Scientific and Technological culture
biography | speach

SPEAKERS
Andrea Moltrasio Vice-President for Europe, Confindustria
biography and abstract | speach

A. Daniel Weygandt Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General Milan
biography and abstract | speach

Massimo Ponzoni Councillor to Environmental quality of the Lombardy Region
biography and abstract | speach

On. Roberto Menia Undersecretary - Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea
biography and abstract | speach

Image: discovery science

Partner

Mitsubishi Electric

Contribution

Camera di Commercio of Milan

Keeping a cool head at a time of global warming