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Presented By: Science, Technology & Society

STS Speaker. "Code Red for Humanity”: The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change

Paul Edwards, Stanford University

Sculpture by Isaac Cordal, colloquially known as “Politicians discussing global warming" Sculpture by Isaac Cordal, colloquially known as “Politicians discussing global warming"
Sculpture by Isaac Cordal, colloquially known as “Politicians discussing global warming"
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was founded in 1988 to provide scientific background for the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since then, it has published six major assessment reports. The Sixth Assessment, released in August 2021, prompted the UN Secretary-General to call it a “code red for humanity.” As one of 234 Lead Authors of the IPCC Sixth Assessment’s physical science report, I will present some of its main conclusions. We’ll dive below the level of headline statements to examine some major scientific innovations since the last IPCC report in 2013. I’ll talk about my personal experience of the 3-year assessment process, including the most intensive peer review in the history of science. Finally, I will talk about how peer review in the IPCC reflects the changing status of peer review in general.

Paul N. Edwards is William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Stanford University. and Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan. Edwards is the author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010), The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT Press, 1996) and co-editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001), as well as other books and numerous articles. He edits the MIT Press book series, Infrastructures, and co-directs the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. Edwards served as one of 234 lead authors for the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Working Group I), released in August 2021.
Sculpture by Isaac Cordal, colloquially known as “Politicians discussing global warming" Sculpture by Isaac Cordal, colloquially known as “Politicians discussing global warming"
Sculpture by Isaac Cordal, colloquially known as “Politicians discussing global warming"

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