S. Fred Singer is professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project. His specialty is atmospheric and space physics. An expert in remote sensing and satellites, he served as the founding director of the US Weather Satellite Service and, more recently, as vice chair of the US National Advisory Committee on Oceans & Atmosphere. You likely recognize his name as in 2007, he founded and chaired NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change).

The title of his lecture is: “The Climate Debate: IPCC, NIPCC, Hockeystick, and Climategate."

Impacts on energy policy and everything else”. This should be a most interesting presentation and they are open to the public at each location:

Monday, February 6 in Houston

• Noon Rice University, Physics Colloquium

• 7 pm University of Houston, Theater, College of Architecture, lecture with dessert reception

Tuesday, February 7 in Austin