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05 February 2013

University of Copenhagen climate change programme to tackle interdisciplinary complexities

University of Copenhagen, UCPH, will launch an entirely new international climate change programme that will qualify students to address climate issues from the frozen Arctic in the north to tropical Bangladesh further south. Unique about the Climate Change programme is that it will formally abandon typical disciplinary boundaries between the natural and social sciences. This means that up-and-coming graduates will have been trained in, among other things, geophysics, geography, social-economic affairs and security policy. In this way, graduates will be trained to operate and work among a broad range of issues while still being attuned to local conditions, whether abroad or in a Danish municipality.

Kjeld Jul skrev:
"in diese Bereiche ist weniger Hirnschmalz investiert worden durch die internationale Klimaforschung."

kristofferszilas skrev:
Situationen i Danmark minder jo på mange måder om den som har fundet sted i Australien de sidste mange år

The Coalition, led by Tony Abbott, is on the verge of regaining power after the worst six years of government in Australia's Federal history.

The Rudd-Gillard-Rudd-again experiment proved to be the most untrustworthy, incompetent and arrogant administration one could conceivably imagine. Broken promises, failed policies, epic waste, smear, lies and corruption lay strewn in its wake.

kristofferszilas skrev:
Situationen i Danmark minder jo på mange måder om den som har fundet sted i Australien de sidste mange år

sg17a skrev:
Man kan jo så vælge at være enig eller uenig...

With around 20% of the country under sea level, the Dutch have a keen interest in anything that might affect their environment, such as climate change.
But scepticism about the human influence on global warming has been growing in the Netherlands, according to research from the OECD.
In a country where consensus is a key word, the government has taken a more inclusive approach to climate dissenters. To that end, they have funded Marcel Crok to carry out a sceptical analysis of the IPCC report.
In an effort to build bridges between sceptics and the mainstream they are also funding an initiative called climatedialogue.org which serves as a platform for debate on the science of global warming.

kristofferszilas skrev:

sg17a skrev:
Man kan jo så vælge at være enig eller uenig...

Ja, den om korruption passer vist ikke med situationen i Danmark, men ellers stemmer det vel meget godt?

The full text of the Fifth Assessment Report has been out for less than 24 hours and the tales of malfeasance are flowing already. Steve McIntyre has already blogged about some misleading behaviour by senior scientists involved in the review, but his post this morning is amazing, revealing how the discrepancy between climate models and observations was systematically hidden between the final review of the draft and the report issued to the public

Kosmos skrev:
Dagens kommentar fra Bishop Hill:

The full text of the Fifth Assessment Report has been out for less than 24 hours and the tales of malfeasance are flowing already. Steve McIntyre has already blogged about some misleading behaviour by senior scientists involved in the review, but his post this morning is amazing, revealing how the discrepancy between climate models and observations was systematically hidden between the final review of the draft and the report issued to the public

Men den almene "klimalede" i befolkningen og olie- og gasindustriens historiske jerngreb på verdensøkonomien er ikke det eneste, IPCC-forskerne skal kæmpe med for at få verden til at tage forskningen seriøst. Faktisk har der, i takt med at forskerne er blevet stadig mere sikre på, at den konstaterede globale opvarmning er menneskeskabt, rejst sig en stigende tvivl på, om man kan tro på det, klimaforskerne siger.

En ny rapport fra UK Energy Research Centre viser således, at andelen af den britiske befolkning, der mener, at al snak om klimaforandringer er en and, er næsten femdoblet de sidste 8 år. I 2005 var det således blot 4 pct. af befolkningen, der ikke anerkendte, at verdens klima er under forandring. I dag er andelen vokset til 19 pct., mens 9 pct. – mod 5 pct. i 2005 – erklærer sig i tvivl...

There is really not much more to be said here -- the data says what it says, and what it says is so unavoidably obvious that the IPCC has recognized it in its consensus.

Of course, I have no doubts that claims will still be made associating floods, drought, hurricanes and tornadoes with human-caused climate change -- Zombie science -- but I am declaring victory in this debate. Climate campaigners would do their movement a favor by getting themselves on the right side of the evidence.

kristofferszilas skrev:
Coverage of Extreme Events in the IPCC AR5