The ASA’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy sponsored the invited panel titled “From Data to Climate Actions” at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings. The climate expert panelists discussed data, information, scientific and policy communications, and climate actions.
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Statistics, AI, and Autonomous Vehicles
David Banks and Yen-Chun Liu examine the future of statistics in artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A World of Opportunity in Data for Good
This month, David Corliss looks at all 17 United Nations’ sustainable development goals, projects, and resources and proposes ways statisticians can get involved.
JSM 2021: Data for Good and the Stories It Tells
David Corliss recommends making JSM 2021 the event that will help you tell your own Data for Good story and offers suggestions for sessions and search terms to get involved.
SAMSI Director Participates in Climate Change Research, Policymaking
Richard Smith, director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, is participating on the Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Social and Political Stresses for the National Research Council.
Statisticians Participate in 2nd Annual Climate Science Day
Five ASA members participated in the second annual Climate Science Day (CSD) on Capitol Hill February 1. Co-organized by the ASA and jointly sponsored by the ASA and other professional societies, the event’s primary purpose is for scientists to develop relationships with congressional staff so they will consult the scientists on climate-related questions.
September Issue Provides Perspectives on Reconstructing Paleoclimate
Read about reconstructing paleoclimate, massively parallel signature sequencing, methods for assessing the accuracy of summary statistics based on large sets of correlated normal variates, and an alternative to additive-error modeling. A listing of reviewed books also is included.
Section a Presence in Workshop and Meeting Sessions
The ENVR section hosts the workshop “Space-Time Statistics to Evaluate the Impacts of Climate on Health and Renewable Energy” October 14–16 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
Statisticians Comment on Status of Climate Change Science
In November 2009, ASA Past-President Sally Morton joined with the leaders of 17 other science organizations to sign a letter to all U.S. senators summarizing the consensus of climate change science. In short, the letter cited the strong scientific evidence that climate change is happening and that human activities are the primary driver. It went on to list the many likely consequences, some of which are already starting to occur.