[E&E seminars] Tomorrow: The Great Climate-gate Debate

[Jameson Twomey]

The Great Climate-gate Debate

Three weeks ago, thousands of emails were hacked from servers at the  
Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K.   A  
small fraction of them address controversial issues; how to present  
climate data in the most favorable light and how to combat climate  
skeptics, among others.  The responses reported in the press have  
ranged from these emails being a confirmation of climate change  
deniers’ assertions that global warming is a conspiracy and a hoax, to  
the whole affair being a tempest in a teapot with no relevance to the  
reality of global warming and the need to combat it.

Come and listen to five experts give their views on what this really  
means for climate science, the integrity of the Intergovernmental  
Panel on Climate Change, public perception of climate, and the ongoing  
policy negotiations in the Congress and at Copenhagen.

Panel Members:

Kerry Emanuel, Breene M. Kerr Professor of Atmospheric Science,  
Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences

Richard Lindzen, A. P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of  
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Judy Layzer, Edward and Joyce Linde Career Development Associate  
Professor of Environmental Policy, Department of Urban Studies and  
Planning

Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor, Department of Political Science, MIT  
and Professor of Government, Harvard University

Ronald. G. Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department  
of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Director, Center for  
Global Change Science



Moderator:

Henry Jacoby, Professor of Management, Sloan School and Co-Director,  
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change



THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Building 26, Room 100

3:00 – 5:00 PM



Refreshments will be available immediately after the discussion



Sponsors:

School of Science

Center for Global Change Science

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Energy Initiative



For additional information please contact Agnes Budnik, 617-253-8900, scnc at mit.edu 
  
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