You are invited to a free special seminar by

MIT Professor Richard Lindzen

Global Warming: How to approach the science

(Climate Models and the Evidence?)

2pm-4pm 22nd February 2012 

House of Commons, Committee Room 10

Westminster

London SW1A 0AA

Come via main - St Stephens (Cromwell Green) entrance

Ask for Sammy Wilson's (DUP MP) Meeting

Please allow 30 minutes for security

Special guest speaker

Prof. Richard S. Lindzen 

Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chairman: Philip Stott Emeritus Professor

Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the University of London, 

and former Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Biogeography.   

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This is the second in a series of seminars on the Climate Change Act Reconsidered. 

In this special seminar top climate scientist Professor Richard Lindzen, who was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC’s) third assessment report, will give a seminar on:

Global Warming: How to approach the science (Climate models and the evidence?)  

This subject is of great relevance today in light of scientific scandals and a recent letter published in the Wall Street Journal signed by 16 leading scientists (including Professor Lindzen), “No Need to Panic About Global Warming: There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy”.

Please take this opportunity to join us and participate in this important seminar and discussion. 

Send this invitation to your MP and ask them to attend. (Email your MP)

Sign the e-petition to Repeal the Climate Change Act or visit us at www.repealtheact.org.uk 

Biography 

Professor Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist. He has made major contributions to the development of the current theory for the Hadley Circulation, which dominates the atmospheric transport of heat and momentum from the tropics to higher latitudes, has advanced the understanding of the role of small scale gravity waves in producing the reversal of global temperature gradients at the mesopause, and has provided accepted explanations for atmospheric tides and the quasi-biennial oscillation of the tropical stratosphere. His current research is focused on climate sensitivity, the role of cirrus clouds in climate, and the determination of the equator to pole temperature difference. 

Prof. Lindzen is a recipient of the American Meteorological Society’s Meisinger, and Charney Awards, the American Geophysical Union's Macelwane Medal, and the Leo Huss Walin Prize. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He is a corresponding member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, and has been a member of the National Research Council’s Board on  Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the Council of the American Meteorological Society. He has also been a consultant to  the Global Modeling and Simulation Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the author of over 230 professional papers and books. He was a reviewer and contributing author for the first and second IPCC Scientific Assessments and a lead author on the third assessment. (Ph.D., '64, S.M., '61, A.B., '60, Harvard University)

Recommended reading on climate and energy policy

• Wall Street Journal, Sixteen Concerned Scientists, No Need to Panic About Global Warming: There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.

• Prof. Ross McKitrick, What is wrong with the IPCC? Proposals for radical reform, GWPF, 2011.

• Adam Smith Institute, Renewable Energy: Vision or Mirage? By Hugh Sharman, Bryan Leyland & Martin Livermore, December 2011

• Centre for Policy Studies,  The Atomic Clock: How the Coalition is gambling with Britain’s energy policy, Tony Lodge, January 2012.

• CIVITAS, CO2.1: Beyond the EU's Emissions Trading System By David Merlin-Jones, Michael Laughton

• CIVITAS, Electricity Costs: The folly of wind-power, by Ruth Lea, January 2012.

• Policy Exchange, The Full Cost to Households of Renewable Energy Policies, February 2012.

• PricewaterhouseCoopers, Minerals and Metals Scarcity in Manufacturing:The

          Ticking Timebomb, Sustainable Materials Management, December 2011. 

• Financial Times, Call to Abolish the Carbon Floor Price, by David Blair, 11 September 2011.

• Renewable Energy Foundation, Energy Policy and Consumer Hardship, December 2011.

• Water Wye Associates: The Cumulative Impact of Climate Change Policies on UK Energy Intensive Industries, March 2011.

• Chartered Institute of Housing, The Green Deal Won’t Tackle Fuel Poverty, January 2012.

•  Sam Arie The Guardian, Five reasons the ‘green deal’ policy on energy saving won’t work

• Analysis of UK Wind Power Generation report, by John Muir Trust, March 2011

• Donna Laframboise, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert: IPCC Expose 

• James Delingpole, Watermelons: How the Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future.

• Philip Foster, While the Earth Endures

• Dr Tim Ball, Slaying the Sky Dragon