Connecting the Dots 2014
Agenda
12:30 - 1:00 Registration
1:00 Welcome: Stacey Bent, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Chemical Engineering
1:10 - 2:05 IPCC Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Introduction: Chris Field, Co-Chair IPCCWG II, Environmental Earth System Science, Carnegie Institution
Key findings: Katharine Mach, Co-Director of Science, IPCC WG II Technical Support Unit, Carnegie Institution
Michael Mastrandrea, Co-Director of Science, IPCC WG II Technical Support Unit, Carnegie Institution
2:15 - 3:15 Breakout Sessions
Aaron L. Strong, What Makes Something Anthropogenic Anyway? The Devils in the Details of Climate Policies
Blake B. Francis, From Arctic Village to Oceanfront Estate: Evaluating Vulnerability and Assessing Need
Frances Moore and Nik Sawe, So You Think You Can Adapt? Heuristics and Biases in the Perception of Climate Risk
Deepti Singh and Dan Horton, Weather Going Wild: Will Global Warming Lead to More Extremes?
Delavane Turner, Rising Sea Levels: Should I Stay, or Should I Go?
3:30 - 4:30 Connecting the Dots Panel: Our Changing Climate
Moderated by Lauren Sommer, KQED Public Radio, Science and Environmental Reporter
Noah Diffenbaugh, Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Charles Kolstad, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Precourt Institute for Energy
Jon Krosnick, Communications
Terry Root, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
4:30 - 5:30 Keynote: Gro Brundtland
Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at the Haas Center, United Nations Foundation, The Elders
5:30 - 6:30 Reception and Charged Particles Jazz Band