The Return of the Intersection, Part II

I've finally figured it out: This blog will be reborn circa Monday, January 15th, in San Antonio, TX, where I will be taking in the American Meteorological Society annual meeting, and focusing on the hurricane/global warming content presented there. There will be a whole series of talks focused on Climate Change Manifested by Changes in Weather, a both fascinating and fraught subject area. It's a perfect opportunity for me to finally start seriously blogging about the subject matter of my new book, after numerous fits and starts over the past year.

See this panel in particular:

4:30 PM1.7Heightened tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic: Natural variability or climate trend? Greg Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Webster

4:45 PM1.8Can we detect climate trends in extreme tropical cyclones? Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL; and B. A. Harper, K. Hoarau, and J. A. Knaff

5:00 PM1.9The water and energy budgets of hurricanes and implications for climate change
Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Fasullo

I am predicting a full room for that one.

MIT's Kerry Emanuel, the original hurricane-climate theorist, is also giving a major speech in the presidential forum. So I'll be blogging from there as well.

Meanwhile, I am also doing a talk this month, at Cornell, sponsored by the Department of Communication. I figure it's time to get back into speaking a bit, so the timing for this is perfect. The date is January 26, 2007. The title: "Science at High Wind Speeds: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming." I've already given a teaser version of this still-developing presentation at the Exploratorium in San Francisco last month. I'll be adding more content to it at Cornell, and kind of letting it grow from there.

I don't know how many "war on science" talks I gave in 2005 and 2006, but suffice it to say that there were dozens in various locales across the country. Now the hope is to channel that speaking experience into a new presentation, centrally focused on hurricanes and global warming, that both has overlaps with the earlier talks but also many added dimensions. More depth. I guess we'll see how I do! Expect more event announcements in the near future....