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Four reasons why the fight against climate change is likely to fail

March 15, 2014

Democrats in the Senate stayed up all night talking about the perils of climate change. But while there's hope that technology, changing consumer and business practices or new policies could finally turn the tide and slow or reverse climate change, there are also good reasons to think those efforts will fail. [...]

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February 19, 2014

Inge Lehmann was a Danish mathematician. She worked at the Danish Geodetic Institute, and she had access to the data recorded at seismic stations around the world. She discovered the inner core of the Earth in 1936, by analyzing the seismic data from large earthquakes recorded at different stations around the world. [...]

Ninth Simons Public Lecture


On November 4, 2013, Emily A. Carter (Princeton) delivered the ninth and final public lecture in the series. The title was Quantum Mechanics and the Future of the Planet and the location was the Korn Convocation Hall at UCLA.

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Conceptual Climate Models: MAA-MCRN Short Course at the 2013 JMM

This two-day short course introduces conceptual models of the Earth’s climate system. The first day is devoted to Energy Balance Models (EBMs): differential equations which express the physical law of energy conservation in mathematical terms. The second day is devoted to incorporating observational data from the paleoclimate record and computational data from simulations of the Earth’s orbit during the Pliocene and Pleistocene into EBMs. The hands-on worksheets include simulations of models to explore the interplay between energy balance, ice-albedo feedback, Milankovitch cycles in Earth’s orbit, and other feedback mechanisms.

There are recorded lectures, PDF slides and hands on worksheets with theoretical and computational exercises.

Organised by

  • Esther Widiasih (Chair), University of Arizona
  • Anna Barry, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
  • Hans Kaper, Georgetown University
  • Richard McGehee, University of Minnesota
  • Samantha Oestreicher, University of Minnesota
  • James Walsh, Oberlin College
  • Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College
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