Leonard Smith presented ‘When might a climate model prove fit for purpose? Expected Uncertainty-or-Big Surprise’ at the Dynamics and Statistics in Weather and Climate Workshop, Max Planck Institute, Dresden. Abstract.
Leonard Smith (with Ana Lopez, David Stainforth, Ed Tredger and Roman Binter) presented ‘How does the diversity in our models inform us about the uncertainty in our future?‘ at Symposium I of the Munich Re programme of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy: Interpreting Models in a Climate Change Context, London. Objectives and other talks of Symposium I.
Leonard Smith presented ‘Uncertainty, information and decision support’ at the Visegrad Summer School on ‘Climate Variability and Climate Change: estimating and reducing uncertainties‘, 8-17 June 2009, Budapest, Hungary.
Leonard Smith presented ‘Seeing through our models: coping with an inconvenient ignorance in a changing climate’ at Cutting Edge Lecture, McGill University.
Leonard Smith presented ‘Risk and Uncertainty: Understanding the Limits of Predictability’ at GEOSS Small Sea Change: Big Business Impacts Meeting, Washington DC.
Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘You don’t have to believe everything you compute’ at the NERC/Maths KTN joint workshop on ‘Statistical modelling of weather, climate and weather risks for insurance’ at Lloyds of London Old Library.
Leonard Smith gave evidence to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, ‘Uncertainty in Climate Projections’ – a day of discussion supporting the RCEP study on ‘Adapting the UK to Climate Change’, Met Office, Exeter.
Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘Predicting extremes, extreme predictions, and the role of the probability calculus in climate prediction’ as an invited keynote speaker at ‘Extreme events: theory, observation, modeling and prediction‘ Conference, 10-14 November 2008, Palma de Mallorca.
Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘Communicating Uncertainties for those insuring future climate change’ at the ‘Insuring Future Climate: Preparing and Acting Today‘ Conference, 3-4 November 2008, Oslo. Abstract. Talk slides.
Leonard Smith gave the invited keynote speech ‘Improving Predictions of Climate Change: living with an inconvenient ignorance’ to the conference ‘Climate change impacts and adaptation: dangerous rates of change‘, 22-24 September 2008, University of Exeter. Abstract.
