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Climate scientist Ken Caldeira speaks at Frontiers in Global Change seminar series

Policy-relevant science to help solve the carbon-climate problem

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA
EMSL Auditorium
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Stanford University's Ken Caldeira will speak on global climate change and options for stabilizing it during the inaugural talk in the Frontiers in Global Change seminar series, March 17, 2009, at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA. At Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford, Calderia has studied issues such as ocean acidification, intentional intervention in the climate system, mass extinction events in Earth's geologic history, and the scale of change needed to address our current climate and carbon problem. In January, New Scientist magazine named Calderia a "Hero Scientist of 2008. " He contributed to assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has also provided technical support to negotiating teams for the U.S. government and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. His research has been reported widely in journals, mass media, and social media.

Topics that will be addressed:

• What's the current state of climate change?
• How is deforestation contributing to global warming?
• What are our options for stabilizing the climate?
• Geoengineering: controversial but potentially promising
• How are we using global climate models to answer policy questions?

PNNL's new Frontiers in Global Change seminar series http://www.pnl.gov/atmospheric/seminars/ features innovative and strategic speakers from industry, government, and academia discussing novel ideas and advancements in climate change and carbon management.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory where interdisciplinary teams advance science and technology and deliver solutions to America's most intractable problems in energy, national security and the environment. PNNL employs 4,200 staff and has an $850 million annual budget. Ohio-based Battelle has managed PNNL since the lab's inception in 1965.

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