Publications and Events

Climate / Energy / Environment Events

Drowning and Drought: Extreme Weather Impacts on our Economy and Society
B-340 Rayburn • December 2, 2011
• John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist and Regents Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
• Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University; Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
• Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America
• Moderator: Jay Gulledge, Senior Scientist and Director for Science and Impacts, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
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The Vulnerability of U.S. Water Resources to Climate Change: From the Mississippi River floods to growing shortages in the West
1324 Longworth • May 9, 2011
• Peter H. Gleick, Ph.D., Co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California

Geoengineering: The Risk Management Potential of Climate Engineering
1334 Longworth • April 12, 2011
• Ken Caldeira, Ph.D., Climate scientist, Carnegie Institution Department of Global Ecology, & professor, by courtesy, Department of Environmental Earth System Sciences, Stanford University
• David Keith, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary
• Moderator: Paul Higgins, Associate Director, American Meteorological Society Policy Program

Weather, Climate, and Food
Russell 328A • March 25, 2011
• Dr. Donald A. Wilhite, Director of the School of Natural Resources and Professor of climatology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Dr. Michael Roberts, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University
• Moderator: Paul Higgins, Associate Director, American Meteorological Society Policy Program

Climate Change and Agriculture: Food and Farming in a Changing Climate
328A Senate Russell & 2318 Rayburn House • June 16, 2010

• Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Dr. Cesar Izaurralde, Laboratory Fellow; Joint Global Change Research Institute
• Dr. Paul Gepts, Professor of Agronomy and Geneticist; U.C. Davis
• Dr. Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Climate Change & National Security (video)
2212 Rayburn • June 4, 2010

• Rear Admiral David Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of the United States Navy (video) (slides)
• Dr. Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (video) (slides)
• Moderator: Paul Higgins, Associate Director, American Meteorological Society Policy Program

Climate Science: Key Questions and Answers (Video)
210/212 SVC • May 11, 2010

• Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University (slides)
• Warren Washington Head of the Climate Change Research Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (slides)
• Richard Smith, Mark L. Reed III Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (slides)

Science, Preparation, and Resilience: What we can learn from the Haitian Earthquake of 2010
200 SVC and 2325 Rayburn • May 6, 2010

• Eric Calais, Professor of Geophysics, Purdue University
• Reginald Desroches, Professor and Associate Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
• Brian Tucker, President and Founder, GeoHazards International

Tiny Particles with Big Consequences: Black Carbon, Climate, and Air Quality
106 Dirksen • April 29, 2010

Opening Remarks
• Senator Jeff Bingaman (video)
Moderator
• Jay Gulledge, Senior Scientist / Director for Science & Impacts, Pew Center on Global Climate Change (video)
Panelists
• Tami Bond, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (video)
• Allen Schaefer, Executive Director, Diesel Technology Forum (video)
• John Bachmann, Principal, Vision Air Consulting, LLC (video)

Climate Policy: Public Perception, Science, and the Political Landscape
902 Hart • March 12, 2010
• Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D. Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Michael Oppenheimer, Ph.D. Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Department of Geosciences and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Jon A. Krosnick, Ph.D. Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Communication, Stanford University

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Cannon Caucus Room (345) • January 8, 2010
• Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, the Climate Institute
• Kristie L. Ebi, Executive Director, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 Technical Support Unit - Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
• Katharine L. Jacobs, Professor, University of Arizona Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department
• Susanne Moser, Director and Principal Researcher, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting

Climate Change: Health & Policy Implications
188 Russell • November 16, 2009
Moderator

• Bruce Alberts Editor-in-chief of Science
  Panelists
• Rita R. Colwell Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland, College Park Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Lynn Goldman Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Mary Hayden Scientist

Climate Change and Our Coasts: Impacts and Adaptation Options
253 Russell • November 9, 2009

• Vicki Arroyo Executive Director, Georgetown State and Federal Climate Resource Center
• Virginia Burkett Chief Scientist for Global Change Research, U.S. Geological Survey
• Ken Caldeira Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
• David Kennedy Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, National Ocean Service, NOAA

Climate Change: Intersections of Science and Policy
366 Dirksen and 2325 Rayburn • January 9, 2009

• Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund and lead U.S. negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference in 1997
• Susan Solomon, a senior scientist at NOAA who recently served as one of the co-chairs of Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Peter Gleick is the president and co-founder of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.
• Ted Parson, Professor of Law and of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan

Climate and Energy Technology:Current Options and Research Possibilities
November 20, 2008 • B 369 Rayburn House Office Building
• Welcome: Alan Leshner Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
  
• Remarks by Research and Development Caucus Co-chairs Rep. Judy Biggert and Rep. Rush Holt
  
• Climate Stabilization Wedges Dr. Roberta M. Hotinski, Science Communicator Consultant to the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University
  
• Climate and Energy Technology Potential Dr. Jae Edmonds, Laboratory Fellow and Chief Scientist Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Joint Global Change Research Institute

Climate Change: From Scientific Knowledge to Policy Development
The Gold Room (Rayburn 2168) • January 11, 2008

• Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University "Climate Change and Scientific Consensus"
  
• Stephen Schneider, Stanford University "Science and Public Policy: The View from the Lab"
  
• David Goldston, Princeton University "Science and Public Policy: The View from the Hill"
  
• Ralph Cicerone, National Academy of Sciences "The Road Ahead"

The Role of Science in Public Policy
2325 Rayburn Building • January 12, 2007

• Dr. Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science magazine and President Emeritus of Stanford University "Culture and Custom in Science"
• Juliet Eilperin, Environmental Reporter, The Washington Post "A Journalist's View of Communicating Scientific Information to the Public"
• Dr. Andrew Dessler, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University "What Science Can Contribute to Policy Discussions on Climate Change" (PDF)
• David Goldston, Princeton University former Chief-of- Staff, House Science Committee "The View from the Hill">

Breakfast with AAAS: A Roundtable on Climate Change Adaptation to Climate Change
Capitol Room SC-4 • July 12, 2006

• Bill Easterling, Pennsylvania State University "Recent Climate Variability and Future Climate Change" (PDF)

Adaptation to Climate Change
Capitol Room SC-4 • May 10, 2006
• Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University "Adaptation-State of the Art and Current Issues" (PowerPoint)

Climate Change Congressional Briefing
Rayburn House Office Building • May 4, 2005
• Christopher Field, Carnegie Institution of Washington "Ecological Impacts of Climate Change" (PDF)
• Jerry Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research "Climate Change and Climate Change Commitment in the 21st Century and Beyond" (PDF)
• F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California Irvine "Global Warming and Climate Change" (PDF)
• Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University "The Present Impacts of Climate Change" (PDF)

Oceans for the New Millennium: Developing and Implementing Ocean Policy Conference at Cannon House Office Building and reception at Robinson Terminal, Alexandria, VA • July 18, 2000

El Niño and La Niña: Predicting the Future
Rayburn House Office Building • June 8, 1998