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Program Schedule April 22–23, 2004 Roone Arledge Auditorium Thursday April 22 9:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University) 9:15 a.m. Introduction to Day 1 G. Michael Purdy (Columbia University) 9:45 a.m. Keynote Michael McElroy (Harvard University) "Earth's Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future" 10:30 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. Session 1: Climate Change Defined Chair, Richard Alley (Pennsylvania State University) Wallace Broecker (Columbia University) "An Insurance Policy Against a Damaging Global Warming" Mark Cane (Columbia University) "Climate Variation and Climate Change" Steven Wofsy (Harvard University) "Global Forests and Climate" 12:30 p.m. Lunch Break 2:00 p.m. Session 2: Responding to Climate Change: Living in a Greenhouse Chair, Upmanu Lall (Columbia University) Sir Partha Dasgupta (Cambridge University) "Discounting Future Gains and Losses" Jonathan Patz (Johns Hopkins University) "Climate Variability, Climate Change and Disease" Atiq Rahman (Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies) "Responding to Climate Change: Living in a Greenhouse (A View from the South)" Cynthia Rosenzweig (Columbia University) "Climate Change and a Global City: Potential Consequences in the New York Metropolitan Region" 3:30 p.m. Session 3: Responding to Climate Change: Can We Stop It? Chair, Christopher Field (Carnegie Institute at Stanford) Raul Estrada-Oyuela (Ambassador, Argentina) "No, We Can't Stop It, However . . ." Michael Hanemann (University of California, Berkeley) "The Economic Costs of Action Versus Inaction" David Keith (Carnegie Mellon University) "Technology and Climate Change" Jorge Sarmiento (Princeton University) "Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change" 5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks G. Michael Purdy Friday April 23 9:00 a.m. Introduction to Day 2 John C. Mutter (Columbia University) 9:15 a.m. Keynote Eileen Claussen, (Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Va) "Facilitating Change: A Practical Approach to a Low-Carbon Future" 10:00 a.m. Break 10:15 a.m. Session 4: What Limits Our Ability to Respond to or Stop Climate Change? Chair, Scott Barrett (Johns Hopkins University) Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University) "The Limits of Economic Policy-Making" Klaus Lackner (Columbia University) "Today's Limits to Climate Engineering" Daniel Schrag (Harvard University) "Ancient Perspectives on the Next 250 Years" 11:45 a.m. Lunch Break 1:00 p.m. Session 5: Findings: The Way Forward Previous Panel Chairs and Keynotes Chair, Robert Pollack (Columbia University) Richard Alley Scott Barrett Partha Dasgupta Christopher Field Upmanu Lall Michael McElroy 2:30 p.m. Introduction President Lee C. Bollinger (Columbia University) UNCONFIRMED 2:35 p.m. Keynote Governor George E. Pataki (Law 1970) "New York State and the Climate" 3:30 p.m. Keynote Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University) "The Way Forward" 4:00 p.m. Symposium Closes |
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 Scholars and decision makers discuss how to respond to climate change. 
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