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Global Warming: What Do We Really Know?

Event: Global Warming: What Do We Really Know?
The Question of Global Warming: Was the IPCC Correct in Declaring the 1990s The Warmest Decade of the Millennium? What do we really know? Steve McIntyre Abstract In 2001, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told us that the 1990s were: The "warmest decade of the millennium"; and that 1998 was the "warmest year". In 2007, they updated this, stating that the last half of the 20th. century was the warmest 50-year period in the past 1300 years. But how do we know that it's warmer now than in the Medieval Warm Period, when Vikings settled in Greenland? Stephen McIntyre first asked this question in 2003; and asking the question set off a tremendous controversy. His journal articles in 2005 with co-author Ross McKitrick, of the University of Guelph, were reported in news articles by Nature and Science, and the controversy was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. In 2006, the House Science Committee then commissioned a National Academy of Sciences panel to investigate the controversy, and the House Energy and Committee held hearings on the matter. The answer to this question is based on a wide range of factors in physics and engineering. This is the focus of this Seminar and the speaker will discuss the statistical and scientific problems involved in trying to compare the two periods with any confidence and to reach acceptable answers.
Date and time:May 16, 2008
2:30 PM - 3:48 PM
Location:Area on Campus: 0001 Scott Lab
Contact:Professor Robert Essenhigh
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Event category:Engineering & Mechanical Engineering
Event Type:Seminar

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