Wednesday, 15 January 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
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., Winchester, MA
Panelists:
James Hansen, Columbia University, Earth Institute, New York, NY; Dana Royer, Wesleyan University Exley Science Center, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Middletown, CT; Karen Wishner, University of Rhode Island, Oceanography and Biological Oceanography, Narragansett, RI; Jonathan G. Fairman Jr., Athenium Analytics, Dover, NH and Susan Solomon, MIT, EAPS, Cambridge, MA
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.
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