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While an international team to expand the project is still in the works, the project already has a solid steering committee composed of Harvard professors, including Frankel, Black Professor of Business Administration Forest L. Reinhardt ’79, and Daniel P. Schrag of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers is also part of the steering committee...
...However, according to Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Daniel P. Schrag, we are unlikely to witness any changes paralleling a global deep freeze or a new ice age. Instead, the consequences of a disruption to the thermohaline circulation are more likely to simply mitigate the predicted effects of global warming. “The important thing is that part of the world, Scandinavia and Europe, is likely to warm by 4-6 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years,” Schrag says. “So this [effect] will just cause these areas to return to normal...
...consequence Schrag can predict with confidence: global climate change will disrupt ecosystems and animal populations. He offers a colorful example of the quandary that the most vulnerable of the earth’s animals would face. “Now there are some organisms like polar bears that live in cold weather, and they’re just screwed,” he said. “What do you do if you’re adapted to a world that has a lot of sea ice, and the sea ice disappears...
...best and that a significant effort has to be made to get attention from anyone in the department. The head of ESPP is Pfoho Housmaster Jim McCarthy, study break enforcer and science advisor to Al Gore’s own Inconvenient Truth. Other professors include Paul Hoffman and Daniel Schrag, the two leading proponents of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis, which proposes that an ice age that took place in the Neoproterozoic was so severe that the Earth’s oceans froze over completely. According to some, it could happen again. And ESPPers...
...exhibit on climate change at the Harvard Museum of Natural History highlights the work of Harvard scientists who say that devastating hurricanes, like Katrina and Rita, may be everyday occurrences in the near future. Spearheaded by Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Daniel P. Schrag and 10 other Harvard-based scientists, the exhibit is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, of which Shrag is also the director. The exhibit, “Climate Change: Our Global Experiment,” opened its doors to the public on Oct. 1, and presents years of scientific research...