Joint Session 3 | 
|   | The New Energy Economy (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) | 
|   | Chair: Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Chicago, IL 
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 | 8:30 AM | J3.1 | The New Energy Economy Invited Speaker    Steve Messner, Environ Corp., Novato, CA | 
 | 8:45 AM | J3.2 | The Role of Atmospheric Science in Renewable Energy Usage    Betsy Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO | 
 | 9:00 AM | J3.3 | NOAA's potential to support carbon-free renewable energy: observations, forecasts and climate studies    James M. Wilczak, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Marquis | 
 | 9:15 AM | J3.4 | Global Energy Use and Options for Renewable Economic Growth    Hugo A. Loaiciga, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA | 
 | 9:30 AM | J3.5 | Space-based Earth observations: Informing energy management decision making    Richard S. Eckman, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr. |