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V. "Ram" Ramanathan, an award-winning professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, will talk about the critical issue of climate change in his noon Friday (June 10) lecture, "From CFCs to Cook Stoves: How We Can Work to Stop Global Warming."

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies-sponsored lecture, at the UC Office of the President, will be broadcast live via Ustream TV. It also is archived on Ustream.

Ramanathan has been a pioneer in understanding climate and global warming. He discovered the harmful effects of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other human-made gases in the 1970s, and predicted that global warming would be detectable by 2000. He helped lead an international team in discovering atmospheric brown clouds and found that these hazy plumes of air pollutants have a major impact on monsoon rainfall and rice harvests in India and glacier melting in the Himalayas. His group has equipped unmanned aircraft with equipment to measure black carbon and pollutants. He is working on replacing cookstoves, which produce a lot of pollutants, with cleaner technology in rural India.

Ramanathan has been widely recognized for his work; his honors include the Zayed Prize, Rossby Medal and Buys-Ballot Medal.

Friday's talk is part of a lecture series aimed at highlighting research being done at UC and its contributions to solving some of the world's most pressing problems. 

To watch the lecture, visit www.ustream.tv/ucevents. Join the lectures mailing list for announcements and reminders of upcoming events by contacting orgs@ucop.edu.