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Friday, May 22 • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Climate Change Scenarios

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While climate change is a proven fact, efforts to reduce greenhouse gases are dragging. What are the most-likely and worst-case scenarios that we might see? How will having large amounts of property literally underwater affect the economy? Will the combination of handling a huge number of displaced citizens and the resulting economic crises put an end to dreams like manned space exploration?
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Pat MacEwen

Pat MacEwen is a physical anthropologist (translation: bone freak) doing research on genocide. She has worked on war crimes investigations for the International Criminal Tribunal, and has also done CSI work for a police department in California's Central Valley. Her first degree was... Read More →

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Jay Reynolds Freeman

Software Engineer, Flight Software, SpaceX
Jay Freeman has been a science fiction and fantasy fan since grammar school, and has had scientific and technical interests just as long. He has degrees in physics, marine biology, and physical anthropology. His doctoral thesis project flew on the last Apollo. He has mostly worked... Read More →
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David Friedman

David Director Friedman is an economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist. He is known for his writings in market anarchist theory, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom (1973). He has authored several other books and articles, including... Read More →
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Edward Kukla

Although forced to out of university education based totally in the hard Sciences by the rules of my University and forced to take classes outside the College of Science, I have come to appreciate and even love the Arts! The rules forced me to take classes in Literature, Art, and... Read More →
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Friday May 22, 2015 3:00pm - 4:30pm PDT
Cypress Top of Escalator
  Science and the Future

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