Climate Change: what we know, what we don't know and what we can do
In Association with the Royal Geographical Society
Wednesday 6 February 2013
Venue: Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1
This talk will investigate our current state-of-the-art understanding of the science of global warming. It will describe some of the key results that support the theory, as well as highlighting remaining issues and problems. It will also explore possible ways to avoid dangerous climate change.
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Dr Dan Lunt
Dr Dan Lunt is a Reader in Climate Science in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. Much of his work is driven by a desire to understand the world we live in and how it has varied in the past. To achieve this he makes use of numerical models of past climates to test hypotheses derived from the geological record. He also uses the past climate record to improve models and to better predict future climate change. He has provided evidence to a UK Government Select Committee on Geoengineering and climate change, and is a Contributing Author to the forthcoming IPCC report. He is founding Chief Executive Editor of the Geoscientific Model Development, a journal designed for the description and evaluation of models of the Earth System. In 2010 he won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of the fundamental contribution his findings have made across a range of different subject areas.