MORNING SESSIONS | | 8:20 a.m. | Welcome to Linda Hall Library
Marilyn B. Hebenstreit, Chair, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees | | 8:25 a.m. | Introduction
Lisa Browar, President, Linda Hall Library | | 8:30 a.m. | Overview of the Morning Sessions
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium, New York, New York | | 8:45 a.m. | Keynote Address: An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change
The planet as a biophysical system, the interactions between the natural world and climate change, and how nature can contribute to addressing the climate challenge.
Thomas A. Lovejoy, Heinz Center for Science, Economics & the Environment, Washington, D.C. | | 9:15 a.m. | A History of Climate Change
An examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry from the Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century, and what a study of the past has to offer the interdisciplinary investigation of current environmental problems.
James Fleming, Colby College, Waterville, Maine | | 9:45 a.m. | Break | | 10 a.m. | Human and Natural Drivers of Climate Change
A summary of the various causes of climate change from human activities to natural forces.
Johannes Feddema, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas | | 10:30 a.m. | Climate Change: Picturing the Science
Scientific analysis and stunning photography illustrating the effects of climate change on the global ecosystem.
Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York | | 11 a.m. | Morning Wrap-Up and Moderated Q&A | | |
AFTERNOON SESSIONS | | 1 p.m. | Overview of the Afternoon Sessions
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium, New York, New York | | 1:15 p.m. | Deconstructing Global Warming
Richard Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussetts | | 1:45 p.m. | The Economics of Climate Change
A discussion of the "optimal" policy for controlling greenhouse gases in principle and a review of the empirical evidence about mitigation costs and climate damages. Also, a discussion of the implied policies inferred by the economic and scientific results.
Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut | | 2:15 p.m. | Break | | 2:30 p.m. | Climate Change and Forest Ecology
A framework for ecological studies that is based on an understanding of historical influences on forest structure, composition, and function.
David Foster, invited speaker, Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts | | 3 p.m. | The State of the Climate: Faculty Roundtable Discussion and Q&A
Moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson | | 4 p.m. | Adjournment | | |
