Climate debate
Description
On Tuesday 7 June 2011, the TME Department is organising a public lecture plus exchange of views on the Climate Debate. The speaker will be Drs Marcel Crok
20.00:00 - 20:45 Lecture Cracks in the climate stronghold.
Since Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth and the fourth IPCC climate report in 2007, the scare has been in the air. Emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases will lead to disastrous global warming. Those who doubt this 'inconvenient truth' are sidelined as global warming deniers.
Marcel Crok studied the scientific literature and the fourth IPCC report and interviewed dozens of well-known and respected top climate researchers at home and abroad, at both ends of the spectrum.
According to Crok, there are many cracks in the greenhouse hypothesis and the IPCC is insufficiently transparent about these weaknesses in the theory. In his lecture, Crok will discuss some of these weaknesses and explain why the effect of greenhouse gases is probably not that bad. He will also say something about the situation in the Netherlands and in particular the use of climate scenarios. Does it make sense to use such scenarios for policy purposes?
20.45 - 21.00 Pause
21.00 - 22.00 Discussion led by ir B.A.S. Vester, chairman Department TME.
Speaker(s)
Marcel Crok (1971) studied chemistry in Amsterdam and Leiden. After his studies, he decided to switch to science journalism. Among other things, he worked as an editor at the magazine De Ingenieur and from 2003 at the popular science monthly NWT Magazine (formerly Natuur & Techniek). In 2005, he published a critical story in NWT Magazine about the hockey stick graph, an infamous graph from the climate debate that had become a global warming icon. It earned him the Glazen Griffioen, an incentive prize for science journalists. Since then, Crok has closely followed the climate debate. From 2008, Crok worked fulltime for over two years on the book De staat van het klimaat, Een koele blik op een verhitte debat, which appeared at the end of 2010. On 17 December 2010, NRC Handelsblad published his article Kyoto policy will always fail.
Location
KIVI NIRIA building, Prinsessegracht 23
2514 AP The Hague
Organiser
Technology, Society & Economy
Name and contact details for information
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