Publicity, Media and Outreach

Oceans 13: small sea changes, big decisions (PDF) - Professor Lenny Smith,
director of CATS, explains about the LSE/IOC Business Programme for Observing Systems, its work and ambitions.

LSE experts at major climate conference (from LSE Briefing, 10/08/06)
Professor Leonard Smith, director of LSE's Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS) and two CATS visiting research fellows, Professor Nigel Harvey and Dr David Stainforth, contributed to the World Meteorological Organisation conference, Living with Climate Variability and Change, held this July in Espoo, Finland. The conference noted the value in moving toward addressing demand driven aspects of climate change research, including more input from policy makers in industry, NGOs, aid agencies and other non climate scientists’ research, and communicating both current insights and the limits of our current scientific insights in a way that informs decision makers to the greatest extent possible. The conference has now issued a statement - Espoo Statement.

BBC Links to Huge Climate Project. Meltdown (part of the Climate Chaos Season) broadcast on BBC Four, 20 February 2006

BBC Weather Features: "Probabilistic Forecasts - Do you want to be happy?"
Mark Roulston, Visiting Research Fellow to CATS, LSE, says "Every time you make a decision in the face of uncertainty you’re effectively gambling. Probabilistic forecasts let you know whether the odds are favourable."

"LSE statistician explores the unknowns of climate modelling". Climateprediction.net and a new paper in Nature. January 2005

Material World, BBC Radio 4:

"Predicting the Unpredictable", aired April 11, 2002.

Weather Forecasts and "Unknown unknowns"

Professor Smith comments on Donald Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns" in the Telegraph of 7 July 2004: "Science turns to philosophy in search for truth"

Weather roulette (PDF)

What's the connection between the weather, epilepsy and CATS? Lenny Smith explains how statistics has the answer.