GC44A:
Climate Change: Impacts, Resilience, Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Mitigation III

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Simon D Donner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada and Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Co-conveners:  Simon D Donner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Political Challenges and Opportunities to Climate Change Mitigation: A View from the Front Lines
Andrew J Weaver, Univ of Victoria, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
4:30 PM
 
Regional Renewable Energy Cooperatives
Paul Hazendonk1, M. Bryson Brown1, James M Byrne1, Trevor Harrison1, Richard Mueller1, Kent Peacock2, John Usher1, Rossitsa Yalamova1, Roland Kroebel3, Jaime Larsen3 and Rod McNaughton4, (1)University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (2)Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (3)Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (4)University of Auckland, Management and International Business, Auckland, New Zealand
4:45 PM
 
Climate Risk Management in the Anthropocene: From Basic Science to Decisionmaking and Back.
Klaus Keller, Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States; Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
5:00 PM
 
Managing U.S. climate risk through mitigation: Insights from the American Climate Prospectus
Robert E Kopp III1, Solomon M Hsiang2, Trevor Houser3, Kate Larsen3, David M Rasmussen Jr3, Amir Jina4, James Rising5, Michael Delgado3, Shashank Mohan3, Robert Muir-Wood6 and Paul S Wilson7, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Rhodium Group, Oakland, CA, United States, (4)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, (6)Risk Management Solutions, Inc., Newark, CA, United States, (7)Risk Management Solutions, London, United Kingdom
5:15 PM
 
A Multi-Model Framework to Achieve Consistent Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Marcus C Sarofim1, Jeremy Martinich1, Stephanie Waldhoff2, Benjamin J DeAngelo1, James McFarland1, Lesley Jantarasami1, Kate Shouse1, Allison Crimmins1 and Jia Li1, (1)U.S. EPA - Climate Change Division, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States
5:30 PM
 
A new large initial condition ensemble to assess avoided impacts in a climate mitigation scenario
Benjamin M Sanderson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States, Reto Knutti, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Keith W Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
5:45 PM
 
The Feasibility of Avoiding Future Climate Impacts: Results from the AVOID Programmes
Jason A. Lowe, Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, Rachel Warren, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Nigel Arnell, University of Reading, Walker Institute, Reading, United Kingdom and Simon Buckle, Imperial College London, Grantham Institute, London, United Kingdom