Public Briefing: Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change
Tuesday, December 3
11:00-12:00 EST
Koshland Science Museum (6th & E Streets, NW)
525 E St NW, Washington, DC 20001
or live Webcast
The National Research Council invites you to a public briefing for the release of Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises. The study examines the likelihood of various physical components of the Earth system undergoing major and rapid changes (e.g., a shutdown of ocean circulation, ice sheet disintegration, etc.), explores how to monitor climate change for warnings of abrupt changes and emerging impacts, and identifies high priority needs for future research directions and monitoring capabilities.
Speakers include Dr. James White from the University of Colorado at Boulder, who chaired the report’s authoring committee, and committee member Anthony Barnosky from the University of California at Berkeley.
Register here to attend the public briefing in person.
Webcast & Social Media
The event will also be webcast on this page. Participants can submit questions to climatechange@nas.edu.
Follow the conversation about this event and report on Twitter, #abruptchange.
LOL.
Some one needs more money…..
Is this for a new Hollywood movie?
Are they going to institute a worldwide cold-weather campaign to collect thermal sleeping bags for those hundreds of thousands of Europeans who will be freezing in the coming winters?
rapid changes (e.g., a shutdown of ocean circulation, ice sheet disintegration, etc.)…
They also should include traffic jams, blackouts and humanitarian disasters caused by lack of heating during winter, due to the current and future energy prices caused by Green agendas.
I sometimes wonder if the audiences that attend these things are made up of more realists than believers now – just trying to keep an eye on what the dastards are up to. Sometimes I even fantasize that the percentage of realists to believers grows with each event and one day, to everyone’s surprise, it will come out that the entire audience is made up of realists.
The alarmists will feel lonely on the podium then.
Okay, maybe I don’t get out enough.
…if they want to be surprised, let’s see how they react if we get another Carrington Event-class solar flare. Talk about abrupt impacts….
Enough of this public funded nonsense – to all expected attendees, cancel this meeting, get a job and start contributing something of value to your community!
Wake me up when it’s more abrupt than all the snow melting come spring.
‘………. the likelihood of various physical components of the Earth system undergoing major and rapid changes (e.g., a shutdown of ocean circulation, ice sheet disintegration, etc.)……….’
They seem to use the good ol’ term – ‘global warming’ – very sparingly these days.
CRS, DrPH says:
December 2, 2013 at 11:45 pm
…if they want to be surprised, let’s see how they react if we get another Carrington Event-class solar flare. Talk about abrupt impacts….
Surely you’re not naive enough to think the Sun has anything to do with Earth’s climate?
CRS, DrPH says:
December 2, 2013 at 11:45 pm
…if they want to be surprised, let’s see how they react if we get another Carrington Event-class solar flare. Talk about abrupt impacts….
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The only way you will be able to see their surprise, is to Walk there and look. Or get a horse. Nothing else is going to be moving.
They keep recycling the same crap using the same methods.
With a similar “alarmist” introduction a press conference was organized in Germany in 1986.
This resulted in an major article about CO2 triggering the greenhouse effect causing sea level rise in “Der Spiegel” with the infamous front page showing the Dome of Colon in a flooded city. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/index-1986-33.html
That’s when the Climate Scare took off.
It also shows German’s are not capable of learning from their past.
Before the Second World War, German “scientists” developed a theory about indentifying inferior people by measuring the size and shape of their noses.
This theory provided the scientific excuse to send millions of those inferior people into destruction camps. Most of them were Jews.
Today the AGW scare is at the basis of UN Agenda 21 and the planned reduction of the world population.
This is why we have the Fed, the Central banks, the banksters and the US Government working in accord to destroy the very fabric of our civilization, our economy, our Middle Class, our pension, our health security, you name it.
We’re all Jews now.
http://green-agenda.com
Pardon us for our abruptness, but we have invented many clever computer simulations to separate you from your hard earned cash…
The most abrupt impact from changes in the climate that they are worried, about is when a drop in global temps causes their funding to be cut off.
A.D. Everard says:
December 2, 2013 at 11:37 pm
“I sometimes wonder if the audiences that attend these things are made up of more realists than believers now”
I believe it’s called a Preference Cascade, or Preference Falsification. Decent coverage of it in this pdf from the Cato Institute, http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2003/12/v26n4-2.pdf
They need a sequel to the movie 2012?
“Are they going to institute a worldwide cold-weather campaign to collect thermal sleeping bags for those hundreds of thousands of Europeans who will be freezing in the coming winters?” asks BW2013. What makes him/her think that North America will not suffer at least as badly?
Boring…
What about a mutated virus or bacteria immune to all treatment? Or an asteroid strike? Or Yellowstone erupting again? Or a major earthquake resulting in a 200 Ft high tsunami? All of which, I suspect, are more likely in the next 100 years than what they will be discussing. There are an infinite number of possible disasters out their just waiting but come on, if we spend even 1 minute and $1 on each one we will run out of time and money before we get to them all. They should get a life.
R. de Haan says:
December 3, 2013 at 1:48 am
… “Der Spiegel” with the infamous front page showing the Dome of Colon …
I wondered what the hell you were talking about until I looked at the picture – in English we call it ‘Cologne Cathedral’! 🙂
When are these people going to learn that we live on a ever changing planet? No matter if it’s the climate, the sea, or the land that we walk on, it is always changing. Nothing in the physical world stays the same, like they wished it would. Somethings change slowly, somethings change fast & most change at a variable pace. They get all excited everytime they see any variation in the most minute metric & it makes them look like the small minded idiots that they are. This is so much FUN watching these people & Al Gore crash & burn. Mother Nature is not cooperating with them!!!
It may be easy to understand why some of the most ignorant and vociferous extreme climate scientists originate in Australia Nutercelli etc SKS.. Started by Keating and Dawkins in the 80’s this is the result they engendered and they are paying a huge price for the mistake!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/billions-fail-to-stop-slide-in-world-student-rankings/story-fn59nlz9-1226774615386#
1) “Speakers include Dr. James White from the University of Colorado at Boulder, who chaired the report’s authoring committee, and committee member Anthony Barnosky from the University of California at Berkeley.”
Researchers Univ of Colo Boulder, UC Berkley – both notoriously liberal ; I think the AMS liberal bias finding applies here.
2) “identifies high priority needs for future research directions and monitoring capabilities.” = give us more money
3) “Anticipating Surprises” – the big surprise will be any warming going forward will not be catastrophic. The even bigger surprise might be some degree of cooling over the next several decades due to natural cycles. I am sure they will be surprised, but readers of WUWT will not be.
I’m totally astounded by the ongoing ramp-up of climate madness over the last year. They’ve gone and created a complete functioning alternate reality to play with. At our expense, of course.