Diary dates, Hardaker edition
The Institute of Physics' London Branch is to have a lecture from the Institute's new head, Professor Paul Hardaker.
Challenges in Predicting the Weather and Climate Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 18:00 – 20:00
Meteorology is still a relatively young science with lots of interesting challenges remaining for physicists in improving predictions of our weather and climate. The talk will outline the some of these science challenges, including the contributions made from developments in modelling and observations and how we handle uncertainty in predictions. The talk will also touch on the challenges of communicating the science to the public and policymakers.
Details here.
Reader Comments (16)
'The talk will also touch on the challenges of communicating the science to the public and policymakers.'
Well so far it has been dealt with by denying there was any was any uncertainty and stating , in public, that the models had no problems and should be used to make policy .
Amazing how much a ‘settled science’ requires so much on-going review, it just a shame it never gets around to doing this honestly .
Paul Hardaker helped to shield John Cook from scrutiny.
...holds visiting professorships at both the University of Salford and the University of Reading.
So Professor Hardaker does not actually hold a professorial chair.
For a visiting prof to use the title in the world at large, rather than just on his occasional afternoon at the university involved, always struck me to be similar to the recipient of an honorary doctorate subsequently styling themself "Dr. xxx".
...He then became Programme Director for the Met Office's Development Programmes and latterly the Met Office’s Chief Advisor to Government, providing support to the Government in areas such as climate change policy and the civil contingency programme.
bafuncs.org/Biography%20-%20Paul%20Hardaker.doc
So he's partly responsible for the Climate Change Act?
Interestingly, the linked page about the talk refers to him as "Dr". He has always been Prof when I've seen him referred to in the past, and I addressed correspondence to him as Prof too.
See here for details of his 2013 John Lewis lecture (AGW covered at the end):
http://geordiescience.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/john-lewis-lecture-professor-paul.html
Apparently water vapour feedback is the killer (but only if the sea surface temperatures increase, which they have not done for decades, except in a few insignificant for evaporation Northern areas).
Be honest and don't let yourself be fooled. Seems to work in other walks of life.
+1 H2O (if that's not too much positive feedback)
I think I'm getting a touch of the vapours
Will someone please write the paper - 'On Non-computable Numbers, with an Application to the Climate Problem'.
Is the climate computable?
Martin A
thanks for the link. I am a great fan of RGB. I don't always see his posts at WUWT as I find the posts and comments there hard work. And this is a post that I had missed and is well worth a read.
Thanks H2O.
Is there any molecule (in liquid or solid form) that has a higher dielectric constant than yours?
Martin A
I honestly do not know. I am not as self-aware as I should be. But if you will indulge me I remember a science lesson from school many years ago. I remember writing in my exercise book the heading 'The anomalous expansion of water'. It was the first time I had met the word 'anomalous'. But I had no idea at the time just what a big deal it was.
Science is too precious to be the playground of activists.
Yeah, or we'd all be sleeping with the fishes.
No, sorry H₂O, your dielectric constant may be high but it does not seem to hold the record.
Google came up with...
I am experiencing anomalous deflation.
Hope your mum is keeping well.
Haha