Royal Meteorological Society talk

Date: Tuesday 26 November 2013
Time: 18:00 (17.40 for refreshments)
Location: Manchester Metropolitan University, C0.14, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD

Professor Piers Forster, Professor of Physical Climate Change, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science,
University of Leeds.

Title: Hot off the Press: What’s new in Climate Science?

Abstract:
For over 20 years, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) has provided assessments of climate change research. The IPCC’s First Assessment Report in 1990 played a decisive role in leading to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the second assessment report led to the Kyoto Protocol signing in 1997. After the publication of the forth assessment report in 2007, the IPCC was joint recipient of the Nobel Peace prize. The physical science part of the Fifth Assessment Report, will be released at the end of September 2013. This will provide an update of knowledge related to climate change including information on: recent climate change, the carbon cycle and sea-level rise. It will also produce a set of updated climate projections out until 2100. Piers Forster was one of the lead authors of this report and of past reports. He also helped write the summary for policy makers that will be signed off at a 10 day meeting in Stockholm in September by the World’s governments. He will present his own take on the report, answering questions on the state of climate science and its policy implications.