Climate Fingerprints: How Do We Know that Human Activities Have Influenced Global Climate? 2/19/2009
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Benjamin Santer, an atmospheric scientist with the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, presented a talk on human-caused climate change. His research focuses on identification of natural and anthropogenic "fingerprints" in observed climate records, the use of statistical methods in climate science, and climate model evaluation.