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Vienna International Summer University-Scientific World Conceptions (VISU-SWC) announces a call for applications for its 2013 summer course on Climate Studies to take place from July 1-12, 2013.

This course is a two-week high-level summer course on questions related to fundamental problems of climate and climate change, spanning a wide range of topics in philosophy, politics and sociology, and addressing historical and epistemological issues from an international perspective. Lecturers include Jim Fleming (Colby College), Roman Frigg (London School of Economics), Wendy Parker (Ohio University), and Angela Kallhoff (University of Vienna).

The lectures will deal with the following topics:

• Climate and climate change: the scientific basis
• Historical perspectives on climate change: Enlightenment to 1900
• Historical perspectives on climate change: The twentieth century
• Not just average weather: climate as agency and lived experience
• A molecular biography of CO2
• Fixing the sky: the quest to control climate
• Chaos and climate prediction
• Is climate change real?
• Models, measurement and the construction of global climate datasets
• Simulation and understanding in the study of weather and climate
• The costs of climate change: the debate over discounting
• Science for policy: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Debating climate change: consensus, doubt and proof in science
• Precaution and policy: ethical dimensions of climate change
• Uncertainty about future climate change: experts and ownership

For more information, or to apply, please follow this link: http://enviroethics.org/2012/12/03/call-for-applications-vienna-int...