Aug 24 2007

Dr. Roger Pielke Presentation at University of Arizona

Published under Climate Change

Yesterday, Dr. Pielke gave a presentation titled “Human Impacts on Climate: A Broader View than Reported in the 2007 IPCC Report”. His slides are available on his website as a PDF or Powerpoint.

There was nothing surprising. Same stuff as he blogs about.

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    • 3 Responses to “Dr. Roger Pielke Presentation at University of Arizona”

    1. # ferguson 26 Aug 2007 at 2:35 am

      Does this mean that you dismiss what he blogs about, or simply that the presentation adds no new information? Do you think he has some valid criticisms of the IPCC, for example?

      Regards,

      [Response: I meant that since I am a regular reader of his weblog, I didn't hear a lot of new arguments from Dr. Pielke. He does have some valid criticisms of the IPCC.]

    2. # ferguson 27 Aug 2007 at 4:59 pm

      Thank you. That’s about as clear and concise as a reply can be. In future I shall try to follow your example.

      I may have missed it if you have commented on this before, but which valid criticism of the IPCC is, in your opinion, the most important?

      Regards,

      [Response: From the talk, Dr. Pielke admitted that the individual chapter of the IPCC report are generally good. From my understanding, his problem is with the summary for policy makers (SPM), and that's what I too was refering to. I actually haven't read the entire IPCC report.

      On one of the slides in the linked presentation, Dr. Pielke says, "Humans are significantly altering the global climate, but in a variety of diverse ways beyond the radiative effect of carbon dioxide. The IPCC assessments have been too conservative in recognizing the importance of these human climate forcings as they alter regional and global climate."]

    3. # ferguson 28 Aug 2007 at 4:23 pm

      Funny, that was something nagging at me, too. My take on it is different to Roger’s in that he seems to want to reduce the relative importance of CO2, whereas I see these underestimates as being on top of the CO2 problem.

      Shame on you for not doing your bedtime reading!
      Regards,

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