EVENT: Speaker Series: “Less Heat, More Light” John Aber on climate change
DATE: Tuesday, Nov. 19
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: On Zoom. Register here.
SPONSORED BY: Wellesley Neighbors
DETAILS: “Less Heat, More Light: Has the Climate System Become Unpredictable?”
Please welcome John Aber, a professor emeritus of the University of New Hampshire, where he held a joint appointment in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment as well as in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications and written the basic text in his field.
When 2023 was identified as the hottest year on record, well above 2021 and 2022, a flurry of media reports appeared suggesting that some fundamental change in the climate system had occurred and we could not predict the future. John Aber asked this question, “Has the Climate System Become Unpredictable?” To address this issue for us, he will weave the long history of the origins of climate science with three familiar modern climate records to create context for 2023. Was that year an outlier or an indicator of our climate future?