Stanford Seminar - Fingerprinting the Climate System

Explore the science of climate change fingerprinting in this Stanford seminar featuring Benjamin D. Santer from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Delve into the methodology of searching for model-predicted patterns of climate change in observed climate records, understanding how different factors affecting climate have unique signatures. Learn how fingerprinting has evolved from early surface temperature studies to encompass a wide range of climate variables, providing compelling evidence of human influence on global climate. Gain insights into over two decades of research efforts and personal lessons learned in identifying human effects on the climate system. This comprehensive lecture offers a deep dive into the powerful tool of fingerprinting for separating human and natural climate-change signals, and its role in supporting scientific findings of discernible human impact on global climate.