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A Review of the Economic Foundations of Climate Change Models
The Economist
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Time: 9:00 AM — 4:30 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

AEI, in association with The Economist magazine, is pleased to announce the Institute's Second Annual Climate Policy Conference. The conference will convene international panels of experts to examine the controversy over emissions forecasting scenarios and methods. The fundamental input of climate change models is derived from forecasts of future emissions of greenhouse gases, but in recent years there has been considerable discussion and dispute over the economic foundation of these scenarios. This conference will review the uncertainties of emissions forecasting, with an eye toward highlighting "best practices" that might be used to refine future climate change forecasts.

 
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8:45 a.m.

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9:00 Welcome: Christopher DeMuth, AEI
9:15 Panel I: The IPCC SRES Emissions Scenario Process: An Overview
  Chair: Harlan Watson, U.S. Department of State
Presenter: Hugh Pitcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
10:00 Break
10:15 Panel II: Critiques of Emissions Scenarios
Chair: Clive Crook, The Economist
Presenters: David Henderson, Westminster University, London
Warwick McKibbin, Australian National University
Discussant: Richard Cooper, Harvard University
Noon Luncheon
Speaker: James Connaughton, chairman, President's Council on Environmental Quality
"Bush Administration Climate Policy"
1:45 p.m. Panel III: Reducing Uncertainties in Emissions Forecasts
  Chair: Ted Gayer, AEI
Presenters: Ross McKitrick, University of Geulph
Mark Strazicich, Appalachian State University
3:15 Panel IV: Roundtable Discussion on Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Where Do We Go from Here?
  Chair: Steven F. Hayward, AEI
Panelists: Richard N. Cooper, Harvard University
Nasir Khilji, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
   
4:30

Adjournment

 
 
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