IPCC scientist to be on Art Bell tonight

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2007/05/13.html

Theoretical meteorologist Richard Somerville will discuss the implications of adding more and more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.


http://myprofile.cos.com/somerv96

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Expertise and Research Interests

Richard Somerville is a theoretical meteorologist whose research interests include geophysical fluid dynamics, thermal convection, computational methods, predictability, atmospheric modeling, numerical weather prediction, radiative transfer, cloud physics, and climate.

Other Expertise

Richard Somerville is a Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group I for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which will appear in 2007. See http://www.ipcc.ch.

In addition to his work as a researcher, Richard Somerville is active in science education and outreach, beginning with teaching and advising graduate students at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. See http://www.sio.ucsd.edu.

He is the author of an award-winning and critically acclaimed popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change (University of California Press). This book, written accessibly for the general public, covers leading global environmental issues such as stratospheric ozone loss and anthropogenic climate change, together with energy, population and policy implications.

He has also participated extensively in teacher professional development, given Congressional testimony, briefed U. N. climate change negotiators, and advised Federal agencies on education and outreach. He chaired the Geoscience Education Working Group of the National Science Foundation, which produced the report, Geoscience Education: A Recommended Strategy, available at http://www.geo.nsf.gov/adgeo/geoedu/97_171.htm.

Richard Somerville comments frequently on climate and environmental issues for the print and broadcast media. The transcript of a Public Broadcasting System television interview is at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/somerville.html.

He lectures widely to both scientific audiences and the general public. A web video version of a one-hour non-technical lecture given at the University of California, San Diego is available at http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV/5378CA~1.RM.

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Art Bell's "Global Superstorm" BS that was the inspiration of The Day After Tomorrow is not something I'd like real climatologists to get associated with.

sees one. And he won't be a kook tonight.

So you disagree with his assessment that the Gulf Stream could shut down and wreak havoc?

I think the man wants to get a guest on who knows the score and can teach the listeners a thing or two. Would you prefer he have a GW denialist on?????????

I want a sane person on, not someone the denialists can easily pounce on.

was EXCELLENT. And Art's interview questions were EXCELLENT. Any denialist who can attack last night's show has got horse manure for brains.

I am worried the global warming
will cause the range of chupacabras to extend northward.
What can be done?

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2007/05/13.html

Theoretical meteorologist Richard Somerville put forth the case that global warming is a serious issue, and is due to manmade causes-- primarily from carbon dioxide emissions. If major changes are not undertaken soon, we'll experience noticeable problems by mid-century, and the situation will be even more drastic by the end of the century, he warned.

While the issue of global warming has become politicized in the United States, he noted that is not the case in other countries. For instance, France's newly elected conservative leader has expressed concern over the climate problem. Somerville was one of the authors of the IPPC 2007 assessment report which unequivocally points out the pressing issue of climate change. The findings, which were arrived at by mainstream climate scientists, are disputed by a small group of "contrarians," but he pointed out that contrarians are found in all fields of science, such as the doctor who denied that HIV causes AIDS.

The climate changes are not due to natural fluctuations-- such natural factors can't be reproduced in computer models, Somerville commented. In order to reduce emissions, there are a number of steps that can be taken such as energy conservation and the embracing of new energy technologies-- and these actions could actually be beneficial to the economy, he argued.

George Noory is more likely to put the deniers on--Art puts on the straight scientists on this topic. I would say that at least one fourth of the shows that Art Bell hosts are straight science--often futuristic in some ways, string theory, nanotechnology, etc.

Once that methane starts dumping into the atmosphere, it's just a short walk to extinction from there.