C L I M AT I C T H R E AT S

A R I S I N G F RO M P O L A R
CHANGES
PETER WADHAMS
Polar Ocean Physics Gr oup, Univer sity
of Cambridge
December 20: 15:30 - 17:30
Institute of Archaeology, UCL
G6 Lecture Theatre

CONFERENCE
CLIMATE CHANGE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY
A Multidisciplinary Approach from Archaeology,
Climatology and History on Climate Change and The
Possible Collapse of Civilization

December 19 and 20
09:00 - 20:00
Institute of Archaeology

ORGANIZERS
Miguel Fuentes
uczlfue@ucl.ac.uk
PhD Student. Institute of Archaeology, UCL
Dr. Francisco Diego Fras
fd@star.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Teaching Fellow Astrophysics Group,
UCL

SPONSORS
CREDOC Institute, UCL
Institute of Archaeology, UCL
World Archaeology Section, IoA-UCL

The Arctic in Crisis!

The rapid loss of sea ice arising from the polar amplification of global warming is causing a number of
immediate threats to the global climate. These include: a reduction in global albedo, amplifying warming at
all latitudes; acceleration of sea level rise due to melt of ice sheets on land; the possibility of a large
methane pulse from the Arctic offshore continental shelves. I discuss the impact of these and other threats.