Climate change lecture
The Artis lecture last night was pretty good. Dr. Kattenberg is a really good speaker. Very interesting to hear about how the IPCC works, what it does etc. Among the audience there were quite a few climate change skeptics, most notably the geologist Harry Priem, curator of the Artis Geological Museum. The counter-argument seems to be that climatology is not an exact science and that the models IPCC refers to are not accurate enough to make any kind of predictions. I’ve been convinced by what I read that the models are the best we have and might even be overly optimistic.
The Artis planetarium is not the best place for a lecture: there is no real place for the lecturer to stand. Dr. Kattenberg had to walk around the projector in the centre. The slides were projected on two sides of the domed ceiling, but he could only use his laser pointer on one wall, which was invisible to those seated right underneath that wall. Still, the seats are pretty comfortable and I had a good view.