Program: Symposium on Pricing Carbon and Other Climate Policy Opportunities -- The Economic, Political and Social Context (100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Program Chairs: John L. Keller , Weather Analytics Inc. ; Caroline Palmer Normile , American Meteorological Society 2017-2018 Congressional Science Fellow

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Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Panel Discussion 1

Climate change impacts, tipping points and the evidence for urgency

Location: 254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Host: Symposium on Pricing Carbon and Other Climate Policy Opportunities -- The Economic, Political and Social Context

Moderator: John Keller, Weather Analytics, Inc.

Panelists: James Hansen, Columbia University; Dana Royer, Wesleyan University Exley Science Center; Karen Wishner, University of Rhode Island; Jonathan G. Fairman Jr., Athenium Analytics; Susan Solomon, MIT

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

AM Coffee Break (Wednesday)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Panel Discussion 2

The promise of climate mitigation and restoration through transformative technologies

Location: 254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Host: Symposium on Pricing Carbon and Other Climate Policy Opportunities -- The Economic, Political and Social Context

Chair: John L. Keller, Weather Analytics Inc.

Moderator: John L. Keller, Weather Analytics Inc.

Panelists: Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University; Rick Parnell, Foundation for Climate Restoration, RSP Investments; Michelle Wyman, National Council for Science and the Environment; Julio Friedmann, Columbia University; Daniel Nocera, Harvard University

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Lunch Break (Wednesday)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Panel Discussion 3

Evaluating the solutions: what integrated assessment models tell us

Location: 254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Host: Symposium on Pricing Carbon and Other Climate Policy Opportunities -- The Economic, Political and Social Context

Chair: Caroline Palmer Normile, American Meteorological Society 2017-2018 Congressional Science Fellow

Moderator: Caroline Palmer Normile, American Meteorological Society 2017-2018 Congressional Science Fellow

Panelists: Andrew P. Jones, Co-Founder and Co-Director Of Climate Interactive; Jan Mazurek, ClimateWorks Foundation; Noah Kaufman, Columbia University; Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

PM Coffee Break (Wednesday)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Panel Discussion 4

The hard sell in the marketplace of ideas: the challenge of passing effective national climate policy legislation.

Location: 254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Host: Symposium on Pricing Carbon and Other Climate Policy Opportunities -- The Economic, Political and Social Context

Panelists: Katharine Hayhoe, University of Illinois; Mark A. Reynolds, WJHL-TV; Bob Lindmeier, WKOW-TV; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale Univ.; Jerry Taylor, Niskanen Center; Mindy Lubber, CERES

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Wed)

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

PD 1

Panel Discussion Climate change impacts, tipping points and the evidence for urgency

Location: 254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

System hysteresis pushes the worst impacts climate change into the future. Effectively, the benefits in the human condition that fossil energy has afforded current generations in the developed world has come at the expense of future generations. This panel will discuss the evidence for and consequences of the environmental impacts resulting from Earth’s destabilizing climate system.

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

AM Coffee Break (Wednesday)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

PD 2

Panel Discussion The promise of climate mitigation and restoration through transformative technologies

Location: 254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

No matter how quickly we reduce GHG emissions, mitigation can at best deliver a badly disrupted climate. Climate restoration combines mitigation with draw down and envisions lowering atmospheric CO2 from 415 ppm, where it is today, to below 300 ppm. Both the technology and financing methods already exist to reclaim the safe and healthy climate we enjoyed before the industrial revolution. Specific examples of promising technologies with potential commercial viability to deploy at the scale necessary will be discussed.

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Lunch Break (Wednesday)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

PD 3

Panel Discussion Evaluating the solutions: what integrated assessment models tell us

Location: 254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

“Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are used to answer central questions about climate change, from how the world could avoid 1.5C of global warming at the lowest cost, through to the implications of countries’ current pledges to cut emissions. They combine different strands of knowledge to explore how human development and societal choices interact with and affect the natural world. This includes the physical laws driving natural systems, as well as the changing habits and preferences that drive human society.” This session focuses on solutions IAMs reveal that lead to the economic transformation necessary to optimally address the urgency of climate change. These are solutions that might be implemented if most engineers, 97% of climate scientists, and 3,500 economists had their way.

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

PM Coffee Break (Wednesday)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

PD 4

Panel Discussion The hard sell in the marketplace of ideas: the challenge of passing effective national climate policy legislation.

Location: 254B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

There are now a significant number of climate change policy bills under consideration in the halls of the US Congress. Representatives from political action and advocacy organizations will discuss how they’re working to build the political will necessary to pass effective legislation. This session addresses a number of questions, including: Will this legislation reflect the results of integrated assessment models discussed in the previous session? Why hasn’t it been sufficient to merely present the scientific facts within the scientific consensus? What role can professional meteorologists play in educating the public?

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Wed)

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