Climate change is upon us, more or less on schedule as predicted by the climate research community. But how well do we understand it, what does it mean for us, and what does the future hold? In this talk, we will explore the physics of climate and of climate change, focussing on the greenhouse effect and climate feedbacks.

About the speaker

Paul J. Kushner has been an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto since 2004. Prior to that, he was a research scientist in the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Princeton NJ, and a lecturer in the Dept. of Geosciences at Princeton University. He serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Climate, a premier journal in the area of climate science.