History of Climate Science Ideas and their Applications
LOCATION
Army & Navy Club
36-39 Pall Mall
St James's
London
SW1Y 5JN
United Kingdom
Climate change has recently risen even higher up the agenda with concerns about a Climate Emergency linked to a recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on the need to keep global warming to 1.5oC above late nineteenth century levels. The meeting is accordingly designed for a general audience as well as specialist attendees. It will review the development of key ideas about natural and anthropogenic climate change, as well as major modes of climate variability, from the Ice Ages to the possible future climate.
A key purpose of the meeting is to bring these ideas together to review how climate science has contributed in recent decades to interactions between science and policy in the UK as concerns have steadily grown about anthropogenic climate change. This involves the interface between the accelerating developments in scientific understanding and policies for the mitigation of climate change and adaptation to it. Here the Met Office Hadley Centre, interacting widely with other scientists and policy makers, has played a pivotal role. The meeting will end with a Discussion Panel consisting of leading experts who will review where we are and where we are going, partly through questions from the floor.
REGISTRATION
Registration for this event is open.
PLEASE NOTE THAT LUNCH IS NOT INCLUDED AS PART OF THIS MEETING.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. As part of the registration process you will be asked to provide personal information (name and contact email address). Any information you provide to us will only be used by The Royal Meteorological Society and appointed representatives.
Multiple registrations made with the same email address are no longer accepted online. Every registration must have a different name AND a unique email address.
This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome.
If you have any queries with regards to this event or require any further information please contact us at meetings@rmets.org
Agenda
25th Apr 2020 10:30 - 17:30
Session schedule
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10:30 |
Registration, tea and coffee |
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11.00 |
Welcome from The Royal Meteorological Society |
David Warrilow OBE Royal Meteorological Society |
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11.15 |
Introduction |
Prof Sir Brian Hoskins, CBE, FRS Grantham Institute/Reading University |
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11.25 |
Development of Ideas about climate in the million years before the Anthropocene |
Dr Louise Sime British Antarctic Survey |
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11.50 |
Development of ideas about greenhouse gas forcing of the climate |
Prof Joanna Haigh, CBE, FRS, FRMetS Imperial College |
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12.15 |
A Historian’s view of the development of climate ideas |
Sarah Dry Historian of climate and climate change linked to the Science Museum Pre-recorded presentation |
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12.45 |
Lunch |
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14.00 |
How do we study recent and current observed climate? –history of the development of key instrumental data sets |
Prof Tim Osborn University of East Anglia |
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14.25 |
How do we model climate – history of the development of past and present approaches, and how might future modelling develop? |
Prof Mat Collins University of Exeter |
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14.50 |
Development of ideas about how humankind affected past climate and what we expect in future? |
Prof Peter Stott Hadley Centre |
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15:15 |
Development of the Met Office Hadley Centre and its interactions with policy |
Dr Jason Lowe Hadley Centre |
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15.40 |
Refreshments |
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16.00 |
How can society adapt to climate change? – examples from history, the present and likely near future |
Prof Richard Betts MBE Met Office/IPCC Working Group 2/University of Exeter |
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16.25 |
Has the societal response to climate change been adequate? |
David Warrilow OBE Royal Meteorological Society |
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16.55 |
Wrap up discussion panel Members: John Mitchell, David Warrilow, Keith Shine, Dr Jim Skea |
Chair: Prof Sir Brian Hoskins, CBE, FRS |
Climate change has recently risen even higher up the agenda with concerns about a Climate Emergency linked to a recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on the need to keep global warming to 1.5oC above late nineteenth century levels. The meeting is accordingly designed for a general audience as well as specialist attendees. It will review the development of key ideas about natural and anthropogenic climate change, as well as major modes of climate variability, from the Ice Ages to the possible future climate.
A key purpose of the meeting is to bring these ideas together to review how climate science has contributed in recent decades to interactions between science and policy in the UK as concerns have steadily grown about anthropogenic climate change. This involves the interface between the accelerating developments in scientific understanding and policies for the mitigation of climate change and adaptation to it. Here the Met Office Hadley Centre, interacting widely with other scientists and policy makers, has played a pivotal role. The meeting will end with a Discussion Panel consisting of leading experts who will review where we are and where we are going, partly through questions from the floor.
REGISTRATION
Registration for this event is open.
PLEASE NOTE THAT LUNCH IS NOT INCLUDED AS PART OF THIS MEETING.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. As part of the registration process you will be asked to provide personal information (name and contact email address). Any information you provide to us will only be used by The Royal Meteorological Society and appointed representatives.
Multiple registrations made with the same email address are no longer accepted online. Every registration must have a different name AND a unique email address.
This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome.
If you have any queries with regards to this event or require any further information please contact us at meetings@rmets.org
Agenda
25th Apr 2020 10:30 - 17:30
