Contextual Lecture: Waking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes
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Thousands of years ago our planet transformed from a frigid wasteland to the temperate world we recognise today. Is today’s human-induced climate change creating a more geologically fractious world?
About the speaker: Professor Bill McGuire
Bill McGuire is an academic, broadcaster and popular science and speculative fiction writer. Currently Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London, Bill has been a member of the Science Advisory Group in Emergencies (SAGE), addressing the Icelandic volcanic ash problem, and in 2011 he was one of the authors of the IPCC report on climate change and extreme events. His current book, Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes, was ranked at number five in The Guardian's Top 10 'eco' books. Bill presented the BBC Radio 4 series, Disasters in Waiting and has contributed to countless other television and radio programmes as a consultant and contributor. Bill writes for The Guardian, The Times and The Observer, and regularly for New Scientist and Focus magazines, and recently co-presented Project Doomsday with comedy duo, Robin & Partridge.
This lecture is part of the Contextual Lecture Series: Tomorrow's World - Intimations of the Future