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"Can a Candid Climate Modeler Convince Contrarians?|" David Stainforth quoted in an article in Scientific American, 19th July 2011. Article also appeared as "Intrepid British climate modeler sets out to win over doubters|" in Climate Wire, 19th July 2011. 

"A Chance to meet real live scientists|" David Stainforth quoted in an article about the Royal Society Summer Exhibition, Guardian, 6th July 2011.

An interview with David Stainforth| as part of  "Meet the Scientists", Royal Society Summer Exhibition website, July 2011.

"What we do not know in terms of adaptation|" An article on the recent paper 'Adaptation to Global Warming: Do Climate Models Tell Us What We Need to Know' by Naomi Oreskes, David Stainforth and Leonard Smith in RealClimate, 7th March 2011.  

"Few fishy facts found in climate report"|. Leonard Smith quoted in news piece on Dutch IPCC report, Nature, Volume 466-Number 7303, 08 July 2010

"Climate science in the spotlight may not be such a bad thing|". Article by David Stainforth in Guardian.co.uk, 12 February 2010

"The real holes in climate science"|. Leonard Smith quoted in news feature in Nature News/Nature 463, 284-287 (January 2010).

"Climate Warnings' error margins|". Leonard Smith quoted in analysis by Pallab Ghosh, BBC News, 18th June 2009.

"Making Room for Uncertainty|". Leonard Smith is interviewed by Fred Pearce in the New Scientist, 6 December 2008

"Scientist warns against overselling climate change"| Article by Louise Gray, Telegraph, 03 December 2008 in which Leonard Smith warns about over-interpreting climate change models.

Munich Re collaborates with London School of Economics| Munich RE press release, 6 October 2008.

Hillerbrand and Taylor blog on On Lenny Smith's "Model Error, Real World Risk"| talk , January 2008.

"Unproven Theories Have Value|", The Times, letters to the Editor by Leonard Smith, November 30th 2007.

'Too Late to Escape Climate Disaster?|' Article by Fred Pearce, New Scientist, 18 August 2007, in which Leonard Smith warns of the dangers of over-interpreting climate models.

"Ice cap meltdown to cause 22ft floods|" Article in Telegraph, 16 August 2007, in which Leonard Smith warns about the 'naive realism'

"Earthlog|" Article by Fred Pearce, Telegraph, 16 August 2007, in which Leonard Smith talks about statistical models.

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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, in LSE Magazine, Winter 2006.

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 final report from the conference can be found here|.

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

"Mathematics offers business a formula for success".| Leonard Smith quoted in news piece on Financial Times, 13 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."

"What are you doing to save the environment|?" David Stainforth quoted in the Metro, January 2005. 

"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.| 

"Science turns to philosophy in search for truth"|  article by Robert Matthews, Telegraph, 7 July 2004, in which Leonard Smith comments on Donald Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns"

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Weather roulette| (PDF)
What's the connection between the weather, epilepsy and CATS?
Lenny Smith explains how statistics has the answer,
in LSE Magazine, Summer 2003.

Leonard Smith awarded the 2002 Selby Fellowship by the Australian Academy of Science|, details are available on their web site http://www.science.org.au|. Leonard writes "sorta a lecture 'world tour of Australia'".

News In Science|  report, 13 August 2002. Dr Leonard Smith talks about the Climateprediction.net| project

Selby Public Lectures 2002

New Scientist, 4 August 2001. 'Don't blame the butterfly'