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Alan Robock
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Global Warming: The Scientific Consensus climate.envsci.rutgers.edu 15 facts
perspectiveAlan Robock opposes the Byrd/Hagel Senate Resolution 98 because it seeks to limit United States participation in a climate treaty unless developing countries are included in the commitments immediately.
claimAlan Robock conducts research involving observational analyses and climate model simulations, including studies on regional climate change scenarios and the effects of climate change on corn production in Venezuela.
perspectiveAlan Robock advocates for a three-pronged response to global warming: adaptation, improved knowledge, and mitigation.
claimAlan Robock receives research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the US Department of Energy (DOE).
measurementAlan Robock has published more than 125 articles on climate change research, with more than half appearing in peer-reviewed literature.
claimAlan Robock is a member of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
claimAlan Robock identifies midlatitude drought and resulting crop failures in global breadbaskets as a significant potential danger resulting from global warming.
accountAlan Robock has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change, Great Plains Regional Center, at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln since its inception in 1992.
accountAlan Robock served as a contributing author to 4 of the 11 chapters of the 1995 IPCC Working Group I report, including Chapter 8, 'Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes.'
referenceA 1996 paper by Konstantin Ya. Vinnikov, Alan Robock, Ronald J. Stouffer, and Syukuro Manabe titled 'Vertical patterns of free and forced climate variations' (Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1801-1804) concluded that the observed cooling of the stratosphere over the previous 30 years has a very small probability of being caused by natural climate fluctuations and is most likely a signal of human impacts on the climate.
claimAlan Robock serves as a Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Maryland and as the State Climatologist of Maryland.
accountAlan Robock earned a Ph.D. in Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.
claimAdaptation to global warming requires technological innovations and better information, which Alan Robock identifies as a significant business opportunity for the United States to develop and market products globally.
claimAlan Robock serves on the International Climate Commission of the International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (IAMAS) and the American Meteorological Society Committee on Climate Variations.
claimAlan Robock serves as the Associate Editor for Meteorology of Reviews of Geophysics.