Monthly Climate Science and Energy Engineering Dinner

On Tuesday, November 12th, at 7:00pm, , the , and will be hosting the third of their monthly Climate Science and Energy Engineering Dinners, which will usually occur on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

The event will be at the , by 9th Ave & 34th St in Manhattan, within easy reach of the A/C/E & 7 subways, and one block from Penn / Moynihan station. The diner has a large menu with affordable prices, generous portions, and is willing to do separate checks for a large group, with everybody using their own credit card.

The topics of conversation will be

• Climate Science: you have to be able to debate climate science in order to reach out to conservatives, and also, even if you don't talk with conservatives, there is a lot of controversy over just how bad things will get, and how fast.
• Energy Engineering: We have to decarbonize the economy, but there are many unresolved / controversial issues to discuss -- which zero carbon sources of energy are preferable, how to decarbonize transportation, particularly aviation. To get public cooperation, we have to figure out a path to decarbonize that won't involve too much negative impact on per capita GDP, or too much disruption to our way of life.

There are a lot of online forums on the CCL website for discussions, including technical discussions. You can join CCL for free , and then, once you're a member, log in to the "CCL Community" . Then go to "Connect -> Action Teams" and there are about 50 such teams, and once you join any of them, there is a "Forum" within it for discussion. The most interesting forums, technically, are:

• Nerd Corner
• Greenhouse Gas Removal
• Nuclear Energy

Every time a major hurricane hits the US, mainstream media news anchors rush to attribute it to "climate change". It's not that simple. It's hard to determine for certain whether any one hurricane was influenced by climate change, and the number of hurricanes making landfall in the US is a low integer, so if there's 5% increase in their frequency or intensity, it will take decades of data for the signal to make itself felt above the noise. , and there does not seem to be an obvious trend.

The introduction of weather satellites in 1979 added a lot of new data, as we began newly detecting hurricanes that formed over the Atlantic and spun themselves down to nothing before reaching land. A study done in 2020 analyzed hurricanes detected by satellite since the launch of weather satellites and found a .

in frequency and private insurers have been raising rates. Past senate leadership has been unwilling to allow FEMA to raise rates and FEMA's been losing dozens of billions of dollars per year on flood insurance. We'll see if the new congress allows FEMA to raise rates sufficiently to cover its costs.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Skylight Diner, 402 West 34th Street, New York, United States