Outreach Talk: Depolarizing Climate Science – Nadir Jeevanjee

Climate change is a highly polarized political issue, with polarized narratives of the science playing a significant role. Some narratives emphasize uncertainty, casting doubt on even our most robust results, whereas other narratives unduly emphasize worst-case scenarios and speculative threshold behavior. To address this dichotomy, the outreach nonprofit Climate Up Close has developed a simple schematic which we refer to as the Climate Science Landscape. The Landscape organizes climate phenomena according to our level of certainty, and makes clear that some phenomena are well understood, others less so, and that (as in any scientific field) there is a constantly evolving boundary between the two, with many phenomena of interest lying near the boundary.

About our speaker — Nadir Jeevanjee is a Research Physical Scientist at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory studying convection, radiation, and climate.

Sponsored by the PAOC Colloquium Committee —

Interdisciplinary seminar series that brings together the whole PAOC (Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate) community. Seminar topics include all research concerning the physics, chemistry, and biology of the atmospheres, oceans and climate, as well as talks about societal impacts of climatic processes.

Contact: paoc-colloquium-comm@mit.edu