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A presentation based off of her recent book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscure the Truth about Climate Change. Naomi Oreskes, author and professor of history and science studies, University of California, San Diego. From the University of Rhode Island’s Spring 2010 Vetlesen Lecture Series, People and Planet Global Environmental Change. March 2, 2010.

Calls for an independent inquiry into what is being dubbed “Climategate” are growing as the foundation for man-made global warming implodes following the release of emails which prove researchers colluded to manipulate data in order to “hide the decline” in global temperatures.

This week marks the beginning of the hurricane season in the United States and scientists will be watching closely in the wake of the extreme weather patterns that have devastated the Midwest. One of the questions they’re trying to answer focuses on the impact of climate change and global warming. Deadly tornadoes and record-high rainfall have cut a path of death and destruction throughout the US midwest in recent weeks. The region is known for such weather, but this year has been extreme. According to Scientists, one of the reasons may lie far away near the equator in the Pacific Ocean. It’s known as La Nina, a condition where ocean surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific are cooler than normal. When La Nina is in affect, it can shift weather patterns all over the planet and, according to Professor Brian Soden at the University of Miami, create perfect conditions for extreme weather. He said, “In a La Nina event, it actually makes the atmosphere over the Atlantic more unstable which is more conducive to the development of tropical storms and hurricanes.” Soden and his colleague, Professor Ben Kirtman, are keeping a close watch over the current La Nina. They say if equatorial Pacific Ocean temperatures do not rise, it could mean a more intense Atlantic hurricane season. Over the long-term, they say global warming and climate change might also come into play with global weather patterns. He said, “You can expect things as the climate warms to see more frequent extreme …

Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider says we can still prevent “a lot of big stuff” by acting now to stop global warming. More info about climate change at knowledge.allianz.com

the scale of the view, the perspective, on examining climate data is very important.