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Contesting Climate-gate
March 23, 2010 - "Science and Policy After Climate-gate" - Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University led a Penn Program on Regulation Risk Regulation Seminar regarding the details surrounding the "Climate-gate" controversy of 2009, where a climate change science institute was hacked, uncovering emails. Excerpts of these emails were released to the media where they were lambasted by climate change critics as proof of a scientific conspiracy surrounding climate change after information related to the emails was found to be within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Many sought to discredit the entire report, as well as climate change science in general. Professor Yohe's presentation contested these accusations and demonstrated that even taking into consideration of errors within the IPCC report, the essential finding of climate change as being a product of human intervention holds true and needs to be met with changing regulation and policy. Professor Yohe also mentioned specific alterations to future IPCC reports on climate change as well as new methods to better analyze economic impacts of climate change.
Contesting Climate-gate
March 23, 2010 - "Science and Policy After Climate-gate" - Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University led a Penn Program on Regulation Risk Regulation Seminar regarding the details surrounding the "Climate-gate" controversy of 2009, where a climate change science institute was hacked, uncovering emails. Excerpts of these emails were released to the media where they were lambasted by climate change critics as proof of a scientific conspiracy surrounding climate change after information related to the emails was found to be within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Many sought to discredit the entire report, as well as climate change science in general. Professor Yohe's presentation contested these accusations and demonstrated that even taking into consideration of errors within the IPCC report, the essential finding of climate change as being a product of human intervention holds true and needs to be met with changing regulation and policy. Professor Yohe also mentioned specific alterations to future IPCC reports on climate change as well as new methods to better analyze economic impacts of climate change.