This collection of videos features prominent scientists lecturing on what they have learned and what we know about global warming.
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It's Not About The Hockey Stick
At the link below Richard Alley gives a longer, more informative lecture regarding the CO2/temperatures relationship in deep time - and how rotational and orbital changes have impacted Earth's temperature fluctuations - into that dynamic he introduces us to Earth's geo-chemical processes, such as CO2's interaction with our planet's lithosphere. Richard Alley explains it in a way only an expert intimately familiar with his subject can:
From the 2009 AGO Fall meeting.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4oMsfa_30Q
(44:15 minutes)
(44:15 minutes)
what scientists know and why they know it.
The lecture was given at Stanford University 10/23/2012.
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Ben Santer at Chico State
Dr. Ben Santer gives and excellent talk at Chico State University on 10/20/2011. He explains climate models, how they work, how climatologists have developed them over time and what we have learned from them. He also explains what "Climate Fingerprinting" is all about.
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Stephen H. Schneider ~ Is the Science of Global Warming Settled Enough for Policy?
July 24, 2008 The title sums it up quite well and the articulate professor touches all bases leavened with some welcome humor. In the process of explaining what and why scientists know what they do - Dr. Schneider also discusses "balanced" news coverage and the balance between speculative components and established components of any field of science. He also reviews some items the denialist press continue to peddle, including the back story to the "70s imminent ice age" claims, among others.
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The General Public: Why Such Resistance?
(February 25, 2010) Ben Santer, a research scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
discusses the recent problems with the use of the freedom of information act
for non-US citizens to demand complete records, including emails, on scientific research projects.
Dr. Santer posits that this is a dangerous dilemma that will ultimately inhibit scientific research.
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Answering Climate Change Skeptics
A March 2, 2010 presentation based off of her recent book,
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscure the Truth about Climate Change.
Dr. Naomi Oreskes, author and professor of history and science studies,
University of California, San Diego.
From the University of Rhode Island's Spring 2010 Vetlesen Lecture Series,
People and Planet Global Environmental Change.
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