http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chapmanconf.htmRESEARCHERS GATHER TO DISCUSS ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The evidence is mounting: Earth’s climate has changed abruptly at times throughout its 4-billion-year history.
Next week, the world’s top climate researchers will come to Ohio State University to piece together this evidence and try to better understand today’s climate change, and how it may relate to abrupt changes in the past and in the future.
The American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change will take place on the Ohio State campus from June 15-19, 2009. Topics will range from climate models, paleoceanography, and ocean circulation to ice sheet dynamics as researchers try to decipher the climate-tipping points that have driven past civilizations to collapse.