FW: Lecture: TONIGHT!
Sullivan, Erin M
"Predicting Climate in a Chaotic World: How Certain Can We Be?"
Professor Timothy Palmer, Royal Society Research
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From: Erin Sullivan [esul...@neaq.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 4:55 PM
To: Sullivan, Erin M
Subject: FW: Lecture: TONIGHT!
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From: Gina Parente
Sent: Thu 11/1/2012 10:48 AM
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Subject: Lecture: TONIGHT!
Good Morning Everyone!
Don't forget about the exciting lecture in the IMAX:
TONIGHT @ 7:00 pm, Simons IMAX Theatre
Arrive early for the community reception starting at 6:30pm in the IMAX lobby
Predicting Climate in a Chaotic World: How Certain Can We Be?
Professor Timothy Palmer, Royal Society Research
The New England Aquarium is pleased to welcome the Lorenz Center's 2nd Annual John Carlson Lecture to the Simons IMAX Theatre. Understanding and predicting global climate change may be one of the most complex scientific challenges we face today. MIT's School of Science recently launched the Lorenz Center, a new climate think tank devoted to fundamental inquiry. By emphasizing curiosity-driven research, the Center fosters creative approaches to learning how climate works. This year's lecturer, Timothy Palmer, will discuss the key sources of uncertainty in making such predictions, how we estimate their impact and how we might reduce forecast uncertainties.
Edward Lorenz's pioneering work on systems whose evolution is unpredictable and chaotic was motivated by skepticism about the use of statistical models to predict next month's weather.
And yet, on the web and elsewhere, one can find predictions not only of next month's weather, but also of the human effect on long-term climate. Can we have any confidence at all in long-range predictions of weather? And should we believe these estimates of human-induced climate change-or is the whole notion of predicting long-term changes in climate misguided and unscientific?
Click here to register! <http://support.neaq.org/site/Calendar?id=104025&view=Detail>
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Gina Parente
Education Lecture and Program Coordinator
New England Aquarium
Central Wharf / Boston, MA 02110
tel: 617.226.2247 / fax: 617.973.0251
gpar...@neaq.org