Climate debate
Description
The climate debate was started in the 1980s by Margaret Thatcher and accelerated by Al Gore through his documentary "An Incovenient Truth" (2006). Policies on CO2 emissions have since been developed. The central question in the discussion on global warming is to what extent mankind is causing global warming. Much research has been done on the relationship between CO2 emissions and global warming.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has compiled scientific research on climate change and published recommendations for policy. There are many weblogs where readers of climate change research engage in debate with each other. Roughly 2 currents can be distinguished in this debate:
1) The "alarmists" who fear major consequences of warming still in this century and
2) the "sceptics" who generally agree with the warming effect of more CO2 in the atmosphere, but wonder how fast will temperatures rise in this century, what will sea levels do and how much land ice will melt?
In the lecture, Lodewijk Hazelhoff will outline how measured warming relates to temperature changes in recent times (on a scale of decades to millions of years). The process of warming due to greenhouse gases will be discussed. The question of using climate models for projections into the future or giving more importance to statistical analyses of measured values in relation to measured temperature change will be central. How sensitive is our climate to increased CO2 concentration? Can you model that or is statistical analysis a better "tool"?
Location
Rotterdam
Organiser
Circle Rotterdam