Lecture-Forum on Climate Change

Last Tuesday, August 24, 2010, the Physics department organized a lecture-forum on climate change, held at the multimedia center of Silliman University. The main lecture was led by Dr. Clare Cabahug Maxino, Ph.D. in Physical Geography at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. Her lecture was entitled:

"An Introduction to Climate Change and Climate Modelling"

Discussions on Risk Management involved with climate change was done after by Dr. Gerardo C. Maxino, Ph.D.

The lecture was attended by students from Maxino college, faculty and students of the SU physics department, and students from the chemistry department.

Dr. Clare discussed important details on climate change, as well as clarify terms that are usually misused by climate change skeptics. The students were given a brief overview on climate studies and basic climate models.

During the open-forum, different questions were raised by the students and faculty members, both physics and non-physics. One of Dr. Clare's closing remarks during the open forum stressed the importance of facts and data, "You have all the science, but it all boils down to how you use the science."