WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 13
WHERE: Nicholas Music Center, Douglass Campus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick
WHO: Environmental scientists Alan Robock, Anthony Broccoli and Paul Falkowski; Rutgers University purchasing director Kevin Lyons
BACKGROUND: The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Summary for Policymakers of the first volume of its report, Climate Change 2007. The summary concludes that global warming is an established fact and that contributing scientists are more than 90% sure that human beings are responsible for most of the recent warming. This panel of three Rutgers scientists at least two of them have contributed to the IPCC work and a university executive will talk about the substance of the report (Robock), how climate change will affect us and how we might respond to it (Broccoli), how the United States should respond to climate change (Falkowski), and what Rutgers, as an institution, is doing to address the problem (Lyons).