The Department of Economics is delighted to welcome David Stainforth to speak at our second Warwick Economics Lecture of the 2023/24 academic year.

Predicting Our Climate Future: What we know, what we don't know, and what we can't know

Date: Tuesday 31 October, Time: 6 - 7pm
Location: OC0.03

This event is for students and staff only and registration is required in order to attend.

Dr Eman Abdulla will introduce the speaker and chair the Q&A session.

About the Talk

David Stainforth will discuss his new book “Predicting Our Climate Future: what we know, what we don’t know, and what we can’t know” - how climate research is done and why you should trust some of its conclusions and distrust others. Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in both the physical and the social sciences. It requires us to question what we know and how we know it. The issue is important for society but the subject is young and history tells us that scientists can get things wrong before they get them right. How, then, can we judge what information is reliable and what is open to question? In this talk David will highlight the fundamental characteristics of climate change that make it a difficult issue to study. He will discuss the connections between the physical sciences and the economics of climate change as well as touching on the maths of complexity, the physics of climate, philosophical questions regarding the origins and robustness of knowledge, and the use of natural sciences and economics in building policy responses.

This will be followed by a drinks reception, where you will have the opportunity to meet the speaker.

About the Speaker

David Stainforth is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, and an Honorary Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Warwick. He carries out research on climate science, climate modelling, and their relationship with climate economics and policy. He focuses particularly on uncertainty analysis and on how academic assessments can better support decision making in the context of climate change.

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Registration

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Registration will close on Monday 30th October at midday.

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