Lots of well-known warmists at the 2012 Aspen Environmental Forum right now

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Trenberth - skeptism is go

Trenberth - skeptism is good, but climate denialists are just that because they deny scientific facts. ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Lynas - sounding like a re

Lynas - sounding like a real scientist - what we're doing to the Earth is unprecedented in tens of millions of years - yup ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Cullen - most of public th

Cullen - most of public think melting ice when thinking CC, but I bet it's changing to extremes - storms, drought, heat waves, ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Emanuel - big storms are r

Emanuel - big storms are rare, so hard to convey what's going on to public in a way that the public remembers ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Mark Lynas - international

Mark Lynas - international climate negotiations - more enjoyable to be buried alive ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Emanuel - Atlantic hurrica

Emanuel - Atlantic hurricane power strongly linked with temperature - correlation stronger now since 2005 paper. ‪#aef2012‬

2012 Agenda

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Session 4: The New Weather mcnulty room, doerr-hosier center
Take two simple facts: carbon dioxide warms the air, and warm air holds more water vapor. Now stir them into
a turbulent, chaotic atmosphere and what do you get? Maybe the surprising floods and droughts everywhere
from Pakistan to Texas that have been happening lately. This session probes the potential links between rising
temperatures and increasingly volatile weather. Coastal areas are particularly vulnerable, yet many densely
populated urban areas are on the coasts. With 14 disasters in the US alone last year that cost more than a billion
dollars each, the new weather is getting expensive.
panelists
Heidi Cullen, Author, The Weather of the Future
Kerry Emanuel, Professor, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climates, MIT
Mark Lynas, Author, The God Species
Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
moderator
Hari Sreenivasan, Correspondent and Director of Digital Partnerships, Newshour, PBS