Over the past decade, we have seen many opposite extremes in weather. Some places have wild fires while others have polar vortices. Some get extended drought, while others (like Houston…) get frequent flooding. Much of this has been attributed to global warming, but how does a general increase in temperature lead to such varied weather?
Join us online on Saturday, January 30 at 1PM PST / 3PM CST / 4PM EST where we will have three experts on climate and weather discuss these questions and more! You can follow the event on Facebook live on our page but for the full interactive experience we recommend you join us on zoom so you can take part in the polls. You can do that by clicking the link below:
Meet our speakers
Eric Berger
Editor, Space City Weather
Eric is a notable Houston-based science writer and certified meteorologist. He is the editor of the popular Space City Weather page (awbs://spacecityweather.com/), on which many Houstonians rely on for accurate weather predictions. Eric will talk about forecasting weather in general, and hurricanes in particular, amidst a warming world.
John Nielsen-Gammon
Texas A&M University, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
John is both a meteorologist and climatologist, and specializes in extreme weather events. He is the official Texas State Climatologist, and helps our state make the best policy decisions possible based on the data.
John will talk about how climate change affects all aspects of the climate system. In a statistical sense, climate change is influencing extreme events, and we can see trends in certain kinds of extreme weather in Texas. Determining how climate change affected specific extreme weather events is possible, as long as you're clear on what the answer means.
Sylvia Dee
Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Sylvia is an assistant professor and climate scientist at Rice University specializing in atmospheric modeling, water isotope physics, and paleoclimate data-model comparison. She focuses on combining historical and current data with the latest modeling techniques to predict the future climate.