Stephen Schneider, Presentation
on Climate Change, NSW State Parliament House, Australia, July 7, 2003
(Real Player) Steve Schneider discusses climate change with the New South
Wales (Australia) Parliament House.
Article
on climate change published on The Edge. 2003. Steve Schneider comments
on why the concept of "balance" used in the media and politics is not applicable,
accurate, or fair in the world of science. Schneider distinguishes the role
of scientists (determining probabilities and consequences) from that of
politicians (making value judgments) and explains how each group needs the
other.
The
Global Warming Controversy -- Can we separate scientific signal from political
noise?Steve Schneider lectures on the tendency of governments and
media to polarize issues (and the inappropriateness of doing so to scientific
concerns) and discusses the true science behind climate change and the need
for scientists to assign probabilities to the climate change consequences
they forecast. The lecture was given at the Stanford University Computer
Systems Laboratory to theEE380
Colloquium.View
video (requires ASX player).
Global
Climate Change - An East Room Roundtable.
24 July 1997. This publication gives the proceedings of testimonies made
by various scientists to the Clinton Administration. All warn that climate
change is indeed occurring, and they outline a range of possible consequences
that could occur in the future.
"Climate
Change: Causes, Impacts and Uncertainties".
10 July 1997. Steve Schneider testifies to Congress on climate change, its
possible impacts, policy implications, and the distorted media debate. The
testimony appears in the Congressional Record, 10 July, 1997: D726-D729.
The
Earth as Lab. 1995/1996. Lecture
by Steve Schneider to STS 160 (Science, Technology and Society 160 - Technological
Opportunities for Humanity) on the interrelatedness of science and policy
and the function of induced technological change. This lecture also appeared
as a London Times Higher Education Supplement (6 October 1995).
Values
are Everything. Spring, 1992. Steve
Schneider distinguishes between science, which involves laying out probabilities
and consequences, and policy, which involves value judgments in Nuclear
Guardianship Forum (issue #1, p.4).
Hearing
on the Case for Climate Change Action - Testimony of Dr. Stephen Schneider.
1 October 2003. Steve Schneider discusses climate change, its projected
effects, the potential for "surprises" and other "dangerous" climate
change, and the policy implications of all this in a testimony to the
Senate Committe on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Effects
of Global Warming on Plants and Animals Worldwide. 10 January 2003.
Dr. Terry Root is interviewed by Ira Flatow on Talk of the Nation - Science
Friday (a program on National Public Radio). She outlines a recent article
she wrote with her colleagues that appeared in Science
on the effects of global warming on plant and animal communities. (RealPlayer
-- Dr. Root's segment begins at 14:45 minutes into the show, so when
connected advance the RP slider to that point)
The
Future and Natural Disasters. 19 November 2002. Steve Schneider
and other scientists are interviewed on EarthBeat, a radio program produced
by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. They discuss how climate change
is contributing to severe weather and could invoke other natural disasters.Listen
to the interview via Real Audio.
“What
is 'Dangerous' Climate Change?”3 May 2001. Article by
Steve Schneider in Nature (vol. 411, p. 17-19) encouraging scientists
to assign subjective probabilities to the climate change consequences they
believe will occur.
“Identifying
Dangers in an Uncertain Climate”.5 July 2001. Rebuttal of Schneider's
promotion of the use of subjective probabilities in the Nature article above,
"What is 'Dangerous' Climate Change?",
by A. Grübler and N. Nakicenovic in Nature
(vol. 412, p. 15).
“Probabilities
will help us plan for climate change”.
20 September 2001. Support for Steve Schneider's commentary on dangerous
climate change by A. Pittock, R. Jones, and C. Mitchell in Nature
(vol. 413, p. 249).
“Earth
Systems: Engineering and Management”. 18 January 2001. Steve
Schneider discusses possible alternative methods for avoiding dangerous
climate change in Nature (vol. 409,
p. 417-421).
A
Consensus Emerges Around Global Warming. 10 January 1998. Steve
Schneider discusses the effects climate change may have on weather in an
article on the MSNBC website.
Dr. Terry Root was interviewed by Ira Flatow on Science Friday about
the impacts
of global warming on species (RealPlayer -- Dr. Root's segment begins
at 14:45 minutes into the show, so when connected advance the RP slider
to that point), Science Friday, Talk of the Nation, NPR, Jan. 10, 2003.
"When
Doubt is a Sure Thing". 1 August 2002. In a Nature
article (vol. 418, p. 476-478), J.Giles discusses a paper by S. Schneider
and R. Moss on dealing with uncertainty and the use of confidence bands.
Special
events that occured at the UNFCCC Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the
Parties (COP-4). 2-13 November 1998 (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Presentations
include the following issues: Promotion of cleaner vehicles in cities, an
overview of the trends and projections for Annex I countries discussed at
COP-4, perspectives on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), review of
panel presentations, etc...
