Event

GEC3 Lecture Series-Understanding Global Climate Models: Basics for the Non-Climate Scientist

Monday, January 12, 2009toWednesday, January 28, 2009
Burnside Hall 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA

a free lecture series offered
Mondays and Wednesdays, January 12-28, 2009
4 - 5:30 pm

register by email: angela.mansi [at] mcgill.ca

Did you ever think, “Where did Al Gore get the information to show those global climate change predictions in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth?” Do you ever wonder how the figures are actually generated? OK, so you may know that the “data” comes from complex, expensive, computer-driven global climate change models, but did you know that there are many models and their predictions may vary? And, how can we interpret the output of these models on a regional scale when they produce a single data point for an area ~ the size of New Brunswick? By answering all of these questions, and then some, this special crash course aims to give academics, NGOs and policy-makers a better appreciation of the science of climate prediction and its utility for policy-makers across all disciplines.

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