Climate Change

Climate change is coming for your morning cup of joe. George Mason University neuroscience professor Theodore (Ted) Dumas is worried about that and thinks you should be too.

The devastation by extreme weather events caused by climate change is having an impact on more than the environment: It’s a major national security concern. The Schar School is addressing it as such.

An impressive list of thought-leading speakers take on global climate change in a first-ever Schar School summer study-abroad course.

George Mason University’s Ed Maibach is the most influential scientist working on climate change among America’s public universities

Host Dr. Gregory Washington speaks with Ed Maibach, director of Mason's Center for Climate Change Communication about overcoming misinformation about climate change dangers.

Richard Todd Stafford is the director of communications in the Honors College; co-organizer of the Center for Humanities Research Environmental Justice reading group; and a scholar studying culture, energy, and the environment.

Fighting climate change is a global imperative, and the consequences of inaction could be dire. But Mason's Andrew Light, who helped negotiate the Paris Agreement on climate, tells Mason President Gregory Washington that for the go-getters, opportunity awaits.

George Mason University joins the more than 1,500 colleges, universities, businesses and municipalities seeking to help the United States reach net zero emissions by 2050.

President Biden is expected to immediately return the U.S. to the Paris Agreement.