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What’s up with the Weather?

What’s up with the Weather?. Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and the ( Mis )representation of Scientific Uncertainty. Why Weather?. GEO170: Climate Science Feedbacks Tipping Points Weather is: Interesting Accessible Everywhere!. Weather Vs. Climate.

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What’s up with the Weather?

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  1. What’s up with the Weather? Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and the (Mis)representation of Scientific Uncertainty

  2. Why Weather? • GEO170: Climate Science • Feedbacks • Tipping Points • Weather is: • Interesting • Accessible • Everywhere!

  3. Weather Vs. Climate “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get” Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place (temp, precip, humidity, wind speed) Climate is a generalization over large spatial and temporal scales (avg. rainfall, soil moisture, SST)

  4. The Climate System • Atmospheric Circulation • Ocean Circulation • Biogeochemical Cycles • Radiative Forcing

  5. Climate Change

  6. Climate Change

  7. Climate and Extreme Weather

  8. Guiding Questions • What is the relationship between scientific uncertainty and public understanding of science? How is climate change a case of this? • What is the connection between climate change and extreme weather? How is this connection represented in the media? What agendas are being furthered (consciously or unconsciously) by the way climate change is represented in the media? • Given scientific uncertainty about the effects of climate change, what preparation steps are reasonable? What steps are required?

  9. Researchable Questions • What is the current scientific understanding of projected effects of climate change and the relationship between climate change and extreme weather? Which points are and are not contested? • How is this connection being presented in news sources, blogs, climate action campaigns?

  10. Methodologies • Review of scientific papers: • what are scientists saying about climate change and extreme weather? • how connected are they? • what changes in extreme weather events can be expected as global warming continues? • Content analysis of case studies (last 5 years) • Are these events being presented as connected to climate change? • How are the death tolls, damages, etc being characterized (levels of devastation, predictability, preventability)? • Who is being presented as most affected? • Are certain actions being prescribed? What are they? • What images are being used to represent these events? What connotations might they have for the viewer? • Philosophical Argument(?)

  11. Possible Case Studies • Europe and UK storms and flooding(?) • Typhoon Haiyan2013 • US drought/heatwave/wildfires 2012 • Tornado outbreaks (2011?) • Pakistan Floods 2010 • Russian Heatwave 2010

  12. Discursive Investigations • Vulnerability • Gender (Feminization of Disaster) • Imperialist and Colonialist Narratives (Guilt and the White Man’s Burden) • The Authority of Science • Responsibility

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