An ISCF & Clintel Zoom presentation held on Tuesday, November 14, 2023

This lecture features the latest knowledge on climate science as researched by Prof Happer and Prof van Wijngaarden, where their accurate modelling of the influence of the various Green-House Gases on earth’s radiation has led to a lower estimate of climate sensitivity to increasing Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels and has also demonstrated the minimal influence of the agricultural emissions of Methane (CH4) and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). Their findings have been rigorously verified by satellite measurements, thus superseding IPCC modelling. Furthermore, Prof van Wijngaarden will demonstrate that slightly increasing CO2 level will benefit crop yields. Both Professors have previously addressed the ICSF and their lectures may be viewed on https://www.icsf.ie/lecture-series. This lecture is designed as the ideal prelude to the Irish DAFM event “Agriculture and Climate Change – Science into Action Conference 

Prof van Wijngaarden’s publication The Latest Climate Science: Good News for Irish Agriculture! can be downloaded here.

William van Wijngaarden is Full Professor in the Physics Department at York University in Toronto, Canada. He received a BSc in Computer Science and a separate Honours BSc in Physics from the University of Windsor in 1982. He then went to Princeton University and obtained an MSc in 1984 followed by a PhD in Physics in 1986. His early expertise included analysing archival data of humidity, temperature and precipitation to detect any climate change. In recent years, he has collaborated extensively with Professor Will Happer, Cyrus Fogg Brackett Emeritus Professor of Physics at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, and they together are now world leaders in atmospheric physics.