Climate Change: Weather & Climate Summit Returns to Breckenridge with Sessions on Sea Ice and Climate Security

Jan 4, 2015 | Bob Berwyn, Summit County Citizens Voice
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FRISCO — This year’s Glen Gerberg Weather and Climate Summit in Breckenridge once again features some notable climate scientists, including James Balog, who has documented the disappearance of Arctic sea ice, and Dr. Richard Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center. As in past years, the sessions will be webcast live, enabling the general public to listen and even to ask questions online.

The annual conference, set for Jan. 12-15 in Breckenridge, aims to foster dialogue between television weathercasters and meteorologists from top U.S. and Canadian markets and leading scientists and researchers. Along with technically oriented sessions on new weathercasting tools, the conference always features a healthy dose of climate reality, and this year is no exception.

On tJan. 12, Dr. David Titley, of Penn State University, will give a presentation on Climate Change and National Security. Titley, a retired Navy admiral, will cover the history of climate change as seen within the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Navy, including the greatest challenges to national security that arise from climate change and in particular, the associated changes in the Arctic.