Climate change science: how does the science work, what
are its strengths and limitations?
Michael Henehen
Abstract:
Unfortunately, even as a scientist, it is often difficult
to differentiate the chaff from the wheat with regards climate change science.
Too often, climate change is viewed from within a political, or religious
frame: a dogma that one may choose to identify oneself with, rather than an
empirical fact. Even among those who are comfortable that man-made climate
change is a reality, there is a worrying lack of understanding about the
fundamentals of climate change: how it happens, how we know it is happening,
etc. Here I'll be presenting a talk that I gave at the Art House earlier this
month that attempts to cut through a lot of this and get down to the basics-
how does climate change happen, has it happened before, and what has happened
since we've started burning fossil fuels.
I'll then go through and discuss some of the most common
arguments thrown out by contrarians.
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