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Episode 4: Climate Change

Climate change is perhaps the most impending threat to this society. The headlines leave many of us a bit paralyzed, while we try to determine which course of action is better than another. In episode 4 of the Innovations Uncovered series, WebsEdge Founder and CEO, Stephen Horn, invites one of the leading climate scientists in the world on the program. Georgia Tech’s Susan Lozier sheds light on the most impactful ways we could lessen our carbon footprint and explains why she is so optimistic to move into the solution space of climate technology. 

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Susan Lozier Appointed to Climate Security Roundtable

At the direction of Congress, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is establishing a Climate Security Roundtable convening experts from academia, the private sector, and civil society to provide support to the Climate Security Advisory Council (CSAC).

Susan Lozier, dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair of the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech, will serve a three-year term on the Roundtable

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Susan Lozier Receives Top American Meteorological Society Honor

Susan Lozier, dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair of the College of Sciences, is starting off the new year and semester with a top honor from the American Meteorological Society.

Lozier, a physical oceanographer who also serves as president of the American Geophysical Union and as a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, is the recipient of the 2022 Henry Stommel Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society for her “theoretical, observational, modeling contributions, and leadership in significantly improving our understanding of Atlantic Ocean circulation.”

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2021 brought a wave of extreme weather disasters. Scientists say worse lies ahead.

There are millions of tips out there on “The weather of the past will not be the weather of the future,” says a NOAA scientist. “As long as we are emitting greenhouse gases at a historically unprecedented rate, we should expect this change to continue.”

Scores of studies presented this week at the world’s largest climate science conference offered an unequivocal and unsettling message: Climate change is fundamentally altering what kind of weather is possible, and its fingerprint can be found in the rising number of disasters that have claimed lives and upended livelihoods around the world.

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