Workshop

Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Early Warning Signs, Impacts, and Economic Analyses

calendar
Jul 9th, 2005 - Jul 15th, 2005
location
Aspen

This workshop centered around the recognition that human emissions of greenhouse gases were (and are) likely to lead to abrupt changes in climate, with severe, widespread ecological consequences if certain thresholds of climate are crossed. Topics of special interest included: bleaching of corals, disintegration of the West-Antarctic ice sheet, and changes in ocean circulation patterns. Discussions of abrupt change in the past were considered in forecasting abrupt changes forced by anthropogenic emissions. The workshop also considered potential early warning signs that a threshold was being approached.
Keywords: climate change and variability, paleoclimate, abrupt change, thresholds

Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Early Warning Signs, Impacts, and Economic Analyses group photo
Science Session

Abrupt Climate Change and the Future of Humanity

Presented By Kim Stanley Robinson
Date July 13, 2005

Workshop Outcomes

  • Confronting the Bogeyman of the Climate System
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Agenda

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Day 1July 10, 2005

10:45 am Brief Overview Presented by Klaus Keller, Michael Schlesinger, Gary Yohe

2:30 pm Discussant: Michael Vellinga Presented by Michael Vellinga

4:15 pm Discussant: Julia Hargreaves Presented by Julia Hargreaves

Organizers

Klaus Keller

Penn State University
Assistant Professor
starEvent Co-Chair

Michael Schlesinger

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor
starEvent Co-Chair

Gary Yohe

Wesleyan University
Professor
starEvent Co-Chair

Attendees

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Oceanographer
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Climate Communication
Climate Science Writer
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Senior Writer
RAND
Senior Scientist
University of British Columbia
Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
Professor
Princeton University
Professor, Director of AOS Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of California, San Diego
Professor
Institute for Coastal Research
University of California, San Diego
Professor
University of Hawaii
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Program Manager
Hamburg University
Professor
Met Office Hadley Centre
Met Office Hadley Centre
Manager
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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