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History
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National Meetings

History of Climate Science Ideas and their Applications

DATE

Saturday 12 March 2022
10:30 - 17:30

Add Event to Calendar: Google

LOCATION

The Rag Army and 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 1.5°C 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 was 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 ended 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.

Meeting Organiser: Chris Folland FRMetS
Rapporter: Prof Phil Jones FRMetS

Registration

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

Programme

Agenda

12th Mar 2022 10:30 - 17:30

Session schedule

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Time Title Speaker
10:30 Registration, Tea and Coffee -
11:00 Welcome from the Royal Meteorological Society Past President Mr D Warrilow OBE FRMetS
11:15 Introduction Prof Sir B Hoskins CBE HonFRMetS
11:25 Development of ideas about climate, from 800,000 years ago to present Dr L Thomas
11:50 Development of ideas about greenhouse gas forcing of the climate Prof J Haigh CBE HonFRMetS
12:15 The history of an historical science: how climate science became a science of change Dr S Dry
12:45 Lunch Break - Lunch is included -
14:00 How do we study recent and current observed climate? –history of the development of key instrumental data sets Prof T J Osborn FRMetS
14:25 How do we model climate- history of the development of past and present approaches and how might future modelling develop? Prof M Collins FRMetS
14:50 Development of ideas about how humankind affected past climate and what we expect in future? Prof P Stott FRMetS
15:15 Provision of climate science for policy advice from the UK science community Prof J. A Lowe OBE
15:40 Refreshment break -
16:00 Assessing climate change risks and informing adaptation R Betts MBE FRMetS
16:25 Has the societal response to climate change been adequate? Mr D Warrilow OBE FRMetS
16:55 Wrap up discussion panel. Chair: Prof Sir Brian Hoskins, CBE, HonFRMetS. Panel members: Dr John Mitchell, OBE FRMetS, Mr David Warrilow, OBE FRMetS, Prof Keith Shine, FRMetS
17:30 End of meeting -

Key Venue Information:

The RAG Army & Navy Club have provided some key information with regards to the club. Please find the details on their website, noting in particular the dress code: Key Club Information

Please also note the Healthy and Safety documents which have also been provided by the venue:

First Floor
Second Floor

History of Climate Science Ideas and their Applications - Recording

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 1.5°C 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 was 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 ended 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.

Meeting Organiser: Chris Folland FRMetS
Rapporter: Prof Phil Jones FRMetS

Registration

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

Programme

Agenda

12th Mar 2022 10:30 - 17:30

Session schedule

Hide
Time Title Speaker
10:30 Registration, Tea and Coffee -
11:00 Welcome from the Royal Meteorological Society Past President Mr D Warrilow OBE FRMetS
11:15 Introduction Prof Sir B Hoskins CBE HonFRMetS
11:25 Development of ideas about climate, from 800,000 years ago to present Dr L Thomas
11:50 Development of ideas about greenhouse gas forcing of the climate Prof J Haigh CBE HonFRMetS
12:15 The history of an historical science: how climate science became a science of change Dr S Dry
12:45 Lunch Break - Lunch is included -
14:00 How do we study recent and current observed climate? –history of the development of key instrumental data sets Prof T J Osborn FRMetS
14:25 How do we model climate- history of the development of past and present approaches and how might future modelling develop? Prof M Collins FRMetS
14:50 Development of ideas about how humankind affected past climate and what we expect in future? Prof P Stott FRMetS
15:15 Provision of climate science for policy advice from the UK science community Prof J. A Lowe OBE
15:40 Refreshment break -
16:00 Assessing climate change risks and informing adaptation R Betts MBE FRMetS
16:25 Has the societal response to climate change been adequate? Mr D Warrilow OBE FRMetS
16:55 Wrap up discussion panel. Chair: Prof Sir Brian Hoskins, CBE, HonFRMetS. Panel members: Dr John Mitchell, OBE FRMetS, Mr David Warrilow, OBE FRMetS, Prof Keith Shine, FRMetS
17:30 End of meeting -

Key Venue Information:

The RAG Army & Navy Club have provided some key information with regards to the club. Please find the details on their website, noting in particular the dress code: Key Club Information

Please also note the Healthy and Safety documents which have also been provided by the venue:

First Floor
Second Floor

History of Climate Science Ideas and their Applications - Recording

DATE

Saturday 12 March 2022
10:30 - 17:30

Add Event to Calendar: Google

LOCATION

The Rag Army and Navy Club
36-39 Pall Mall
St James's
London
SW1Y 5JN
United Kingdom

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