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Leonard Smith was part of an e-Roundtable on ‘The Uncertainty in Climate Modelling’ organised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He contributed articles entitled ‘In planning for the future, make room for changing forecasts In planning for the future, make room for changing forecasts‘,14 January 2008, and ‘Climate Modelling is still an abstraction of reality Climate Modelling is still an abstraction of reality‘, 10 March 2008.

Ice cap meltdown to cause 22ft floods‘ (pdf) article in The Telegraph, 16 August 2007, in which Professor Leonard Smith warns about the ‘naive realism’ of current climate models.

Professor Leonard Smith, director of LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS) and two CATS visiting research fellows, Professor Nigel Harvey and Dr David Stainforth, contributed to the World Meteorological Organisation Conference ‘Living with Climate Variability and Change’, held in Espoo, Finland. The conference noted the value in moving toward addressing demand driven aspects of climate change research, including more input from policy makers in industry, NGOs, aid agencies and other non climate scientists’ research, and communicating both current insights and the limits of our current scientific insights in a way that informs decision makers to the greatest extent possible. Read the “Living with climate variability and change” Conference final report: Living with Climate Variability and Change: Understanding the uncertainties and managing the risks,’ 17-21 July 2006.