First Live Spherecast Will Show At Bishop Museum:
Nobel Prize Winner To Give Presentation From California

Honolulu, HI – A Nobel-prize winning climatologist will address viewers around the world on a live “SphereCast” on Wednesday, April 1st at 4:00 p.m.  Bishop Museum will carry this live SphereCast on its Science on a Sphere® (SOS) located in the J. Watumull Planetarium lobby.

Climate Change researcher Stephen Schneider will use SOS to illustrate his talk to museums around the world.  Viewers will be able to follow Schneider's presentation titled, "Global Warming: Is Science Settled Enough for Policy?" as he refers to data projected on the sphere.  Schneider's face and voice will be broadcast onto flat screens at museums, side-by-side with simultaneous SOS broadcasts.

He will broadcast live from the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  Schneider contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore and numerous NOAA scientists.  SOS is an educational tool invented by ESRL Director Alexander MacDonald.  It is installed in 34 museums and other institutions around the world – including Bishop Museum.  The giant luminous sphere displays animations of scientific data, from hurricanes to climate change.  By using the SOS network and the sphere itself, Schneider will seize the opportunity to educate thousands on climate-related issues.

According to a United Nations sponsored IPCC report, “it is very likely that human activities are responsible for most of the warming of recent decades.”  There was also consensus that the increasing world population will double or triple the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere by 2100. 

The first ever SphereCast, "Global Warming: Is Science Settled Enough for Policy?" will begin at 4:00 p.m. Hawai‘i Standard Time at Bishop Museum and is free to the public.  For more information, please call (808) 847-3511.

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