The Upcoming Climate: What We Know and What We Wish to Know

ABSTRACT

In this talk, I will present the broad scientific evidence linking anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants to the observed climate trends in temperature and rainfall. I will also review how we can use numerical climate models to predict the amount of global warming and climate change at the regional scale and gauge prediction uncertainty. I will conclude with examples of unsolved problems in climate science and a discussion of what comes next.

BIOGRAPHY

Michela Biasutti studies the dynamics of weather and climate in monsoon regions, the external forcings and internal mechanisms that have created droughts in the past and are going to create rainfall changes in the future, and the impacts of climate change on society. She is a Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a core faculty member in the MA program in Climate and Society at the Climate School. She holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington, Seattle (2003) and a Master's in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington, Seattle (2000), as well as a Laurea (MS-equivalent) in Physics from the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy (1995).