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AGU conference highlights

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

There was a break in the blog action last week because I was attending the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

As usual, this was a great meeting with over 16,000 climate and earth system scientists from around the world gathering to share the current state of their research.

Some highlights:  Richard Alley (world-renowned climate scientist at Penn State) gave an interesting talk linking CO₂ and climate change across multiple geological scales.  It’s a 50-minute version of my Earth Climate History course I’m teaching next semester at Bowdoin.

There were other keynote addresses, but Alley’s was the most appropriate for a general audience.

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