Despite the recent editorial in Nature saying that there’s no current connection between the two, NCAR’s Dr. Kenneth Trenberth is going to pitch connections between extreme weather and climate change anyway at an upcoming seminar at the University of New South Wales in Australia. From their website:
Kevin Trenberth public lecture: Extreme weather and its links to climate change
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science is sponsoring a free public lecture at UNSW from 6:30pm, Tuesday, October 16, by internationally recognised climate scientist Dr Kevin Trenberth.
The lecture explores the links between extreme weather events and climate change by one of sciences leading voices who is actively exploring that connection.
With the summer Arctic ice reaching it’s lowest extent during the period of the satellite record in September of this year and a rash of extreme weather events causing billions of dollars damage throughout 2012, the links Dr Trenberth describes in this lecture are of growing importance.
In this public lecture, Dr Trenberth will explain why global warming is occurring and reveal how heating the planet has generated many different kinds of extreme weather events around the world.
As a climate scientist of 40 years, since receiving his degree in meteorology in 1972, Dr Trenberth brings a wealth of experience to the topic.
He is currently a Distinguished Senior Scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado and was a lead author of the 1995, 2001 and 2007 Scientific Assessment of Climate Change reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Dr Trenberth also served from 1999 to 2006 on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and chaired the WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel from 2004 to 2010. He now chairs the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) scientific steering group.
During his extensive career, he has published over 480 scientific articles or papers, including 47 books or book chapters and over 213 refereed journal articles and is widely regarded as one of the world leaders in his field.
There is only limited seating for this one-off Sydney lecture, so it is important to RSVP early to COECSS@unsw.edu.au if you want to be a part of the audience.
DETAILS:
Time: 6:30pm sharp
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
Venue: Leighton Hall, The Scientia Building, University of NSW
RSVP: COECSS@unsw.edu.au
h/t to WUWT reader AndyG55
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Minor correction to the article Anthony:
“He is currently a Distinguished Senior Lunatic in the Climate Counter Intelligence Section of the UN’s Climate Rapid Response Force in Stalingrad, Colorado”
The REAL problem is that the ARC unit at UNSW will accept everything he says as gospel, without even thinking to question any part of his propaganda.
I actually went to one of their meetings a few years ago, and it was their unquestioning attitude that made me research further. (I still get there junk mail !!)
They were obviously well on the way to advocacy rather than science, even at that stage.
They are truly a worry, because they have the ear of governments.
Extreme weather events are driven by the dynamics of temperature variation. If as the warmists say the warming is mostly seen at the poles, that would tend to decrease the heat gradient and decrease the incidence of extreme weather. They really can’t have it both ways.either heat is building in the arctic due to AGW and decreasing extreme weather or it isn’t.
Personally I think they are wrong on both counts. No arctic warming due to readings being from 1000km extrapolations to sites right at the arctic circle, and no increase in storms due to the cooling oceans not providing the moisture content to really absorb sunlight and cause convection. Of course that is just my opinion…I still haven’t received any dirty oil checks though.(/sarc)
It is a shame that someone’s status as a scientist is not measure by his contributions to the advancement of science, but by his contributions to journals.
He may not be able to find that warming but he sure can find that global warming funding.
If you want to impress us with your quotes and big generalizations, you’ll look a lot less doofus-y if you don’t throw in fancy foolish non-words.
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Nay. Welcome their overweening overreach. They’ll have one flying flatus of a time demonstrating either general warming beyond benign longterm trends or harm therefrom. Opening of the NW Passage, e.g., could easily be shown to have immense economic benefits.
Brian H says:
October 10, 2012 at 2:45 am
“Nay. Welcome their overweening overreach. They’ll have one flying flatus of a time demonstrating either general warming beyond benign longterm trends or harm therefrom.”
Brian – I wish I could share your optimism, but with $4/gallon gas (soon to be $5), the coal industry being destroyed, and even conventional oil and gas production being stymied, climate “science” based lawsuits will only make things much worse. Look at what the EPA is doing.
D. Patterson says:
October 9, 2012 at 10:44 am
Imagine the cartoon where the Trenberth Ostrich visits Australia and is pictured with its head in a hole in the ground while the tail high in the air is being covered with falling snow. The caption says Trenbeerth is looking for the missing heat in Australia.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/snow-falls-as-sydney-braces-for-more-cold-weather-20110512-1ejhp.html
Heh 🙂