Newry, ME
Radiation Management Climate Engineering: Technology, Modeling, Efficacy, and Risks
July 23-28, 2017
Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River
Newry, ME
Chairs:
David Keith & Alan Robock
Vice Chairs:
Douglas MacMartin & Trude Storelvmo
Climate engineering, also called geoengineering, is the idea of deliberately intervening in Earth’s global radiation budget with the goal of reducing some of the risks of accumulating greenhouse gases. The two most frequently discussed possibilities are injecting aerosols into the stratosphere or adding aerosols to low marine clouds, both of which would reflect more sunlight to space; other possibilities include artificially thinning cirrus cloud cover to increasing outgoing longwave radiation. This conference will focus on the scientific questions associated with this set of technologies with the goal of fostering a better understanding of their efficacy and risks.
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Economics and Impact Assessment
Discussion Leader: Michael MacCracken (Climate Institute, USA)
| 9:00 am – 9:40 am | Gernot Wagner (Harvard University, USA) “Feedbacks Between Solar Geoengineering and Mitigation Decisions” (slides) |
| 9:40 am – 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am – 11:10 am | Kate Ricke (University of California, San Diego, USA) “A Portfolio Approach to Geoengineering Technology Assessment” |
| 11:10 am – 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am – 12:10 pm | Juan Moreno-Cruz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) “Integrating Assessment Models of Climate Engineering: Brief History and a Look Ahead” |
| 12:10 pm – 12:30 pm | Discussion |