Michael Crichton Debates Global Warming Wednesday 03/14/2007

Intelligence Squared.org ^ | March 14, 2007 | Event Staff

[Matchett-PI]

NOTE: I don't know if this is on Youtube yet, or not]

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Global warming is not a crisis

Speaking for the motion: Michael Crichton, Richard S. Lindzen, Philip Stott Speaking against the motion: Brenda Ekwurzel, Gavin Schmidt, Richard C.J. Somerville Moderator: Brian Lehrer

SOLD OUT MODERATOR:

Brian Lehrer is host of the highly-acclaimed “Brian Lehrer Show” heard weekday mornings on WNYC® New York Public Radio®, 820 AM, 93.9 FM and wnyc.org. He is also an award-winning author and documentary producer. Lehrer holds masters degrees in journalism and public health/environmental sciences.

SPEAKERS FOR THE MOTION: Michael Crichton is a writer and filmmaker, best known as the author ofJurassicPark and the creator of "ER." Crichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He has been a visiting instructor at Cambridge University and MIT. Crichton's 2004 bestseller, State of Fear, challenged extreme anthropogenic warming scenarios.

Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT since 1983, previously held professorships at Harvard, where he received his A.B., S.M. and Ph.D., and the University of Chicago. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of various awards. He is the author or co-author of three books and over 200 papers. His current research is on climate sensitivity, atmospheric convection and the general circulation of the atmosphere.

Philip Stott is an Emeritus Professor and biogeographer from the University of London, UK. Although a scientist, for the past ten years he has also employed modern techniques of deconstruction to grand environmental narratives, like “global warming.” Stott was editor of the internationally-important Journal of Biogeography for 18 years. He broadcasts widely on TV and radio, and writes regularly on environmental issues for The Times of London , among other publications.

SPEAKERS AGAINST THE MOTION: Brenda Ekwurzel works on the national climate program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Prior to joining UCS, she was on the faculty of the University of Arizona. Doctorate research was at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and post-doctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Gavin Schmidt is a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. His publications include studies of past, present and potential future climates. Scientific American cited him as a top 50 Research Leader in 2004, and he has worked on education and outreach with the American Museum of Natural History, the College de France and the New York Academy of Sciences, among others. He is a contributing editor at RealClimate.org.

Richard C.J. Somerville is Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He is a theoretical meteorologist and an expert on computer simulations of the atmosphere. Among many honors, Somerville is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Meteorological Society. He has received awards for both his research and his popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York City Reception 6:00 p.m. Debate 6:45 p.m. Finish 8:30 p.m [snip]

[Zon]

Thanks for the link.

[enviros_kill]

Very nice quality AVI format on BitTorrent

[lepton]

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[lepton]

bookmark #50 bump

[Matchett-PI]

Today's the day that you can listen to the debate Crichton took part in last week. Ping your lists and/or others you know who might be interested. (I also posted this link in the live thread of AlGore's "testimony" today on C-Span-3. I've linked that below also):

Michael Crichton "Global Warming Is Not a Crisis" debate 3/23/07

For those interested, you may listen to this debate today on NPR on line at the feed shown below.

Look on upper left side of page for this "Listen Live" block by clicking here:
http://www.wnyc.org/podcasting/

Listen Live

AM 820 Windows 20k
MP3 32k

Debates are fed to National Public Radio(R) member stations across the country.

"Global Warming Is Not a Crisis" airs on

WNYC(R) AM 820 in New York City on Friday, March 23rd at 2:00 PM


444 posted on 03/21/2007 10:46:30 AM EDT by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1804253/posts?page=444#444

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[xcamel]

also - AlGore and the 556K signatures - proving he can dupe 0.00185333% of the population on any given day.

[Zon]

Thanks.I'm off to listen.

[Matchett-PI]

"AlGore and the 556K signatures - proving he can dupe 0.00185333% of the population on any given day."

Exactly.

[Matchett-PI]

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