Last September, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part one of their fifth assessment report, the Physical Science Basis, a comprehensive summary detailing the latest scientific consensus findings on the causes and consequences of a warming planet. It should have been the last word on climate change, closing any remaining doubts that policy makers and the public hold concerning the basic questions of man’s role in warming…A favorite talking point among those in denial, and a key to Monckton’s central argument, is the idea that global warming has “paused” over the last 16 years. Dr. Alan Robock, a climatologist at Rutgers University and a lead author on the IPCC fifth assessment report, tells me this is one of the most common lies repeated about climate change.
Questions for a Climatologist: Dr. Alan Robock
In our first installment, we speak with Dr. Alan Robock, a Distinguished Professor of climatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. Dr. Robock studied meteorology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before spending…