Petr Pokorny lecture on climate change and the uncertainty coming with scientific modeling and forecasts.
The lecture was held in czech language.
We want to save the planet from global warming, but we don't even understand the basic climate trends of the geological present. There is an ongoing dispute between climatologists, who use numerical models to try to understand the long-term dynamics of the Earth's climate system, and paleoecologists, who reconstruct climate trends based on proxy data derived from the geological record.
Has the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch, already arrived?
Are we getting baked, or is another ice age coming?
Should we keep calm or should we panic?
These questions are answered by Assoc. Prof. Petr Pokorný, Ph.D., paleoecologist and environmental archaeologist, director of the Centre for Theoretical Studies, a joint department of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
