ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy (ACCCP)

Charge:

In cooperation with the Director of Science Policy, advise Congress on climate change issues, with special emphasis on the roles of statistics and statisticians in advancing science and informing policy

Members:

See Roster.

Activities:

Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill, February 27, 2013: Photo of Richard Smith with Senator Hagan (NC); Robert Lund with his CSD team; AAAS story on CSD13; Climate Science Day Successful, Educational.
2013 AAAS annual conference presentations:
- Murali Haran: Using models and data to learn about the future of the climate; Penn State press release
- Mark Berliner: Informing Climate Policy-Makers (Video); Ohio State press release
JSM 2012 presentations by committee members:
- Peter Guttorp, Introductory Overview Lecture: Statistics and Climate (www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2012/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=207986)
- Peter Craigmile, Water and Climate (www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2012/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=207434)
- Rick Katz, Economic impact of extreme climate events: An approach based on penultimate extreme value theory (www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2012/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=207508)
- Montserrat Fuentes, Statistics and Regional Climate Models (www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2012/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=207433
Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill, February 1, 2012: "Statisticians Participate in 2nd Annual Climate Science Day"; Photo of Peter Guttorp with Congressman Jim McDermott (WA);
JSM 2011 Invited Session: "Addressing the Evidence for Anthropogenic Climate Change"
- Mark Berliner, Ohio State University, slides
- John R. Christy, University of Alabama at Huntsville, slides
- Ross McKitrick, University of Guelph, slides
- Richard L. Smith, The University of North Carolina, slides
Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill, February 17, 2011: "Statisticians Participate in Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill"
May 11, 2010 Climate Science briefing, "Climate Science: Key Questions and Answers", with ASA fellow, Richard L Smith
The group has been meeting with congressional staffers to discuss the contribution statistics can make and to learn more of their needs and developing materials for the staff.
Review of Health Impacts of Climate Change
Committee members publish a piece in March 2010 AMSTAT News: "Statisticians Comment on Status of Climate Change Science". On March 31, the authors also participated in an online q&a on the article: http://magazine.amstat.org/2010/03/climatemar10/2/#transcript.
The group helped review the October 21, 2009 joint science organization letter on climate change science and provided advice to ASA President Sally C Morton on signing it.
Review of the paper, "On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change", by Martin L. Weitzman
Produced short documents for its visits to the Hill. StatisticiansHelpingPolicyMakers.pdf, StatisticiansRole.pdf
Mark Berliner’s documents on this committee’s activities and climate change overview

ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy (ACCCP)

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