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Anne Thompson | What Is Possible in the Age of Climate Change

Bio: Anne Thompson is NBC News’ Chief Environmental Affairs correspondent. Her reports appear across all platforms of NBC News including “NBC Nightly News,” “Today,” MSNBC, and NBCNews.com. She was tapped for this position in April 2007. Most recently, Thompson led coverage on the Gulf oil spill, covering all aspects of the crisis from the beginning to when the well was finally killed. According to the Tyndall Report, this extensive coverage made Thompson the NBC News Correspondent with the most airtime in 2010. She has traveled to Copenhagen to cover climate change negotiations, Greenland, Costa Rica, the Amazon, Australia and Europe to cover such issues as alternative fuels, global warming, land usage, and new technologies.

 

This event is presented as part of the 2025 Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge Seminar Series:

  • Most Mondays, Spring Semester 2025, 2:55-4:10 p.m.
  • Zoom Link

 

This university-wide seminar series is open to the public (via Zoom), and provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview of the science of climate change and climate change models, the implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and food systems, and provide important economic, ethical, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.

Start Date: April 7, 2025
Start Time: 1:55 pm