June 22, 2007 12:00 Noon - 2:00 pm Dirksen Senate Office
Building, Room G-50 "What is space weather and how does it
affect us on Earth and in space? What are the boundaries between
space weather and weather at the Earth s surface? Why should we
be concerned about space weather? Will the new generation of
larger-capacity passenger planes have to be more concerned with
space weather? Dr. Anthony Socci, Senior Science Fellow,
American Meteorological Society Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of
History and Science Studies at the University of California, San
Diego, CA PowerPoint HTML Version Read Dr. Oreskes chapter in:
Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our
Grandchildren -Edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela M.
Doughman, MIT Press, 2007 Chapter 4, The Scientific Consensus on
Climate Change: How Do we Know We're Not Wrong? Scientists have
been studying the potential effect of greenhouse gases on
Earth's climate for more than half a century. As early as the
mid-1960s, they warned political lea