News & Updates

NOAA's 35th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop:
October 4-7, 2010, Raleigh, NC. http://continuingeducation.ncsu.edu/noaa/index.html

SECC Fall Planning Meeting:
November 8-10, 2010, Miami, FL. Details will be posted in the fall.

Florida Climate Institute Kickoff Event: November 16, 2010, Tallahassee, FL. Details will be posted at http://floridaclimateinstitute.org/.

Publications:

Christy JR, Hnilo JJ. 2010. Changes in snowfall in the southern Sierra Nevada of California since 1916. Energy and Environment 21: 222-234. Results show no trend in snowfall in the southern Sierra indicating natural water resources continue to be stable. Agricultural shortages now being observed are due to water management and federal court decisions, not to natural changes.

Christy JR. 2010. IPCC: Cherish it, tweak it or scrap it? Nature 463: 730-732. Discussion of the shortcomings in the current way climate science is compiled for policy makers by the IPCC in which the system is designed to create overconfidence in the science and to exaggerate the climate impacts of humans.

Presentations:

Handyside C. 2010. Sustainable winter water harvesting for irrigation. 87th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science.

Handyside C. 2010. Sustainable winter water harvesting for irrigation. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Summer Enrichment Series.

Professional awards and honors:

SECC member John Christy was one of four scientists worldwide selected to speak at the InterAcademy Council (IAC) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Review Meeting in Montreal on June 15, 2010. Dr. Christy and the other scientists presented on the IPCC process of compiling climate change science. For more information about the meeting and the IPCC review, visit http://reviewipcc.interacademycouncil.net/IACIPCCMontreal.html.

Major grant awards:

McNider R (PI), Hoogenboom G, and the Drought Mitigation Institute at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Use of satellite data and model products in improving the categorization, delineation and mitigation of drought in the Gulf of Mexico region. NASA. $481,000.

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