{"id":350,"date":"2009-04-23T01:47:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-08-16T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:08:34","slug":"videos-from-egu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2009\/04\/videos-from-egu\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos from EGU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I finally got some of the webstreaming working (I needed an updated plugin). I managed to watch some of the medal award lectures after the fact from the <a title=\"EGU webstreams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.h82.eu\/webstream\/egu2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">EGU webstream page<\/a>. Turns out the medal award lectures are not so interesting (although <a title=\"Video of Bengtsson's lecture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.h82.eu\/webstream\/egu2009\/index.php?modid=18&amp;a=show&amp;pid=41\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard Bengtsson&#8217;s lecture on extra-tropical cyclones<\/a> is worth it for his observations about the current state of the art in modeling cyclones).<\/p>\n<p>However, the press conferences are far more interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a title=\"Press conference on uncertainties\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cntv.at\/egu2009\/?modid=18&amp;a=show&amp;pid=12\" target=\"_blank\">press conference on uncertainties in climate change<\/a> is definitely worth it to hear scientists separate what we know from what we don&#8217;t know, along with a basic introduction to the principles of climate modeling. Make sure you watch at least until the &#8220;wheel of fortune&#8221; bit (about halfway through). Bottom line: quantifying uncertainty is crucial. Over dinner this evening we were wishing that other fields (e.g. economics) would be anywhere near this willing to quantify their uncertainties&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Press conference on the cryosphere\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cntv.at\/egu2009\/?modid=18&amp;a=show&amp;pid=9\" target=\"_blank\">press conference on improving outreach and education in the cryosphere<\/a> is great for lots of facts and figures about the frightening rate at which glaciers and sea ice are melting, and the wide ranging implications (it&#8217;s a little slow to get going, but worth it once the panelists start).<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Press conference webstream\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cntv.at\/egu2009\/?modid=18&amp;a=show&amp;pid=7\" target=\"_blank\">press conference on ocean acidification<\/a> packs a powerful punch. It starts with the screening of a film about how\u00a0absorption\u00a0of CO2 by the oceans leads to dramatic change, told from the\u00a0perspective\u00a0of how it will affect the generation of kids growing up today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I finally got some of the webstreaming working (I needed an updated plugin). I managed to watch some of the medal award lectures after the fact from the EGU webstream page. Turns out the medal award lectures are not so interesting (although Leonard Bengtsson&#8217;s lecture on extra-tropical cyclones is worth it for his observations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,72],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}