Nobel Conference 55Climate Changed: Facing Our Future
September 24 & 25, 2019

The changes being wrought on the earth’s climate system are vast, without precedent, and of such magnitude and scale as to potentially alter life itself. Nobel Conference 55 asked “What tools are available, what research efforts do we require, and what kind of people do we need to be to conceptualize and address global climate challenges?” Nobel Conference 55 brought together seven leading thinkers to address climate change from perspectives including paleoclimate studies, climate justice, climate modeling, and climate adaptation. Attendees were encouraged to grapple with the causes and consequences of climate change and with our responses to the challenges it presents us, as individuals and as a society.

Presenters

Richard Alley

Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, an associate of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and Penn State, and a contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Amitav Ghosh

Author of The Great Derangement:Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Gabriele Hegerl

Professor of climate system science at the University of Edinburgh and a contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Mike Hulme

Professor of human geography at the University of Cambridge and a contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

David Keith

Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering

Diana Liverman

Regents Professor of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona and a contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Canadian Inuit activist and political representative, a chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and author of the book, The Right to be Cold