Fall 2008

NSSL brings home part of the Nobel Prize

Harold Brooks


Dave Stensrud

Harold Brooks and Dave Stensrud, both NSSL scientists, serve on the Scientific Basis Working Group of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). There are currently three working groups, focusing on the science, impact and mitigation of climate change, and developing greenhouse gas inventories.

The IPCC was established by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide policy makers with neutral summaries of the latest information related to human-induced (or anthropogenic) climate change. Brooks was a contributing author to the Observed Climate Variability and Change section, and Stensrud was a contributing author to the Model Evaluation chapter of "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis" published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored both the IPCC and Gore to highlight the link they see between the risk of accelerating climate change and the risk of violent conflict and wars.