Speaker: The Causes of Recent Climate Change: Separating Fact From Fiction

This is a speaker next Wednesday evening, but we thought you might be interested.  the topic is climate change.  It says register, but that is not necessary.  It's free, it's at the Palo Alto UU church. 
--Kim


The Causes of Recent
Climate Change: Separating Fact From Fiction
Time:          Wednesday
March 21, 7:00-9:00 pm

Location:    Main Hall, UUCPA, 505 E. Charleston Road, Palo
  Alto 94306  www.uucpa.org

Presenter:   Dr. Benjamin D. Santer,  Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory

Co-sponsor:  Acterra
of Palo Alto:   www.acterra.org


Climate scientist Dr.
Benjamin Santer is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS),

shared in the Nobel Prize
awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), received
a Distinguished Fellowship from the American Geophysical Union, and a MacArthur
Genius Fellowship for his research on human-induced climate change.  For full story see: https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2011/Apr/ATL-041111_santer.html  


He is currently an
atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL); his
research focuses on such topics as climate model evaluation, the use of
statistical methods in climate science, and identification of natural and
anthropogenic �fingerprints� in observed climate records.  Dr. Santer�s early research on the climatic
effects of combined changes in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and sulfate aerosols
contributed to the historic �discernible human influence� conclusion of the
1995 Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Dr. Santer, considered an expert in the
climate change research community, has worked in the Laboratory's Program for
Climate Model Diagnosis and Inter-comparison (PCMDI) for nearly 20 years, and
is a frequent contributor to congressional hearings on the science of climate
change. He credits his success to the exceptional scientists he collaborates
with at LLNL.


Registration appreciated:
Email: eventsignup@uucpa.org   Phone: 650-494-0541.  Childcare usually available with two week
notice; email childcare@uucpa.org