Photo from Dr. Robertson’s webpage, umsl.edu/~robertsondb/.

Dr. David Robertson, Curators’ Teaching Professor of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL), will present a talk on the politics of climate change at Missouri University of Science and Technology this month.

The presentation will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the Ozark Room of the Havener Center on the Missouri S&T campus.

Robertson, who has been a faculty member at UMSL for 32 years, will discuss the role of public opinion and political disagreement on climate change policy. He will also discuss cap-and-trade systems and presidential actions as solutions for mitigating carbon emissions.

Robertson’s presentation is hosted by Missouri S&T’s department of history and political science and the Environmental Research Center (ERC).

For more information about the presentation, contact Dr. Shannon Fogg, chair and associate professor of history and political science at Missouri S&T, by email at sfogg@mst.edu or Robin Collier at rlc@mst.edu.