Hi Peter--
I'd suggest (without consulting Herb):
1. This is the first international body of high decision-maker level
officials (former government, NGO, etc.) to actually keep climate
intervention (at least not dismiss) on the table as policy that may well
be needed as mitigation, adaptation and CDR seem quite unlikely to be
enough to prevent overshoot (which they held on to barely as still
possible, likely mainly because they kept relying on the IPCC
time-lagged global average metric for the amount of warming to date).
2. While there are scientific uncertainties about intervention, the most
critical issues about intervention being used now have to do with
ethical and social justice (and related) issues that need to be
addressed in a convincing way.
Mike MacCracken
On 10/4/23 12:18 PM, Peter Fiekowsky wrote:
Herb or Michael- Thank you for the recording. I skimmed the video and
couldn't find the meat. What were your two top take-aways from that 90
minute discussion?
Was there new information or a specific recommendation to a specific
person or group coming out of the Overshoot Commission?
Peter
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conversation on the Climate Overshoot Commission report at the Healthy
Planet Action Coalition meeting September 21, 4:30 PM EDT
The recording of the discussion with Professor Chris Field is at
https://youtu.be/RATVY9v7vsI <https://youtu.be/RATVY9v7vsI>
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*Subject:* [geo] REMINDER Professor Chris Field in conversation on the
Climate Overshoot Commission report at the Healthy Planet Action
Coalition meeting September 21, 4:30 PM EDT
I am pleased to announce that Stanford Professor Chris Field, an
advisor to the Climate Overshoot Commission (COC) will be our
guest at the next Healthy Planet Action Coalition meeting this
Thursday, September 21, at 4:30 PM EDT for 90 minutes.
Mike MacCracken will moderate the conversation.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88954851189?pwd=WVZoeTBnN3kyZFoyLzYxZ1JNbDFPUT09
Access to previous HPAC meeting conversations can be found at
Healthyplanetaction.Org
The Commission, a private entity sponsored by the Paris Peace
Forum, has 12 members from all over the planet drawn mostly from
those who previously held high-level governmental positions,
including several with strong backgrounds in climate change.
Their previous Director Dr Jesse Reynolds spoke with HPAC in January.
*Jesse Reynolds <https://muse.ai/v/cUNCFMf-Jesse-Reynolds>*
*muse.ai <https://muse.ai/v/cUNCFMf-Jesse-Reynolds>*
The COC report /Reducing the Risks of Climate Overshoot/ was
released on September 14.
*0c3b70_bab3b3c1cd394745b387a594c9a68e2b
<https://www.overshootcommission.org/_files/ugd/0c3b70_bab3b3c1cd394745b387a594c9a68e2b.pdf>*
*PDF Document · 10.7 MB
<https://www.overshootcommission.org/_files/ugd/0c3b70_bab3b3c1cd394745b387a594c9a68e2b.pdf>*
While the COC did not solicit public input it did hold a series of
meetings to learn and discuss the full range of questions facing
the international community in dealing with the risk of climate
overshoot.
Their 4-part high-level recommendations were summarized in the
acronym CARE, for Cut (emissions), Adapt, Remove (CO2), and
Explore (SRM).
Specifically, its recommendation on climate intervention advocated
expanding research while placing "a moratorium on the deployment
of solar radiation modification and large-scale outdoor
experiments that would carry risk of significant transboundary harm."
We look forward to getting a fuller understanding of their
reasoning in discussion with Professor Field.
Chris Field is the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods
Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor
for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University.
Prior to his 2016 appointment at the Stanford Woods Institute, Field
was a staff member at the Carnegie Institution for Science (1984-2002)
and founding director of the Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology
(2002-2016).
Field's research focuses on climate change, especially solutions that
improve lives now, decrease the amount of future warming, and support
vibrant economies. Recent projects emphasize decreasing risks from
coastal flooding and wildfires. He has been deeply involved with
national and international-efforts to advance understanding of global
ecology and climate change. Field was co-chair of Working Group II of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2008-2015),
where he led the effort on “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and
Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” (2012), and “Climate
Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability(2014). He was
co-chair of the committee that produced the groundbreaking 2021 NASEM
report that laid out a solar geoengineering (their term) research
agenda. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard College
and a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford.
Please feel free to circulate this invitation to friends and colleagues.
Herb
Herb Simmens
Author of /A Climate Vocabulary of the Future/
“A SciencePoem and an Inspiration.” Kim Stanley Robinson
@herbsimmens
HerbSimmens.com
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