Friday, November 2 - Saturday, November 3, 2007

Is it happening? Is mankind the principal cause? If so, what can be done about it within reasonable allocations of scarce public resources? Do the proposed solutions make sense from scientific and economic perspectives?

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DAY 1

-Introductions-
Charles E. Murray, President
Kerry Lynch, Research Director
Walker Todd, Conference Director
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-The Science of Global Climate Change-

Carl Wunsch
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
"What is the current state of the scientific knowledge about global climate change?"

David S. Chapman
Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Dean of Graduate School, University of Utah
"Where have we been and where are we going?"

William R. Cotton (Discussant)
Professor of Atmopheric Science, Colorado State University

-The Scientific Methodology and International Politics of Global Climate Change-

David Henderson
Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Westminster (U.K.)
"Governments and climate change issues"

Claudia Rosett
Journalist-in-Residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, UN Correspondent for National Review Online
"United Nations, climate change, and money trails"

Ross McKitrick (Discussant)
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Guelph, Ontario

-Scientifiic Analysis of Climate Change-

Gordon E. Michaels
Chief Technology Officer for Energy and Engineering Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Nuclear energy, the hydrogen economy, and global fossil-carbon management"

William M. Gray
Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
"Hurricanes frequently happen"

James Mills (Discussant)
Track Director, Enviornmental Science, Master of Science and Technology Program, University of Utah

-Rational Economics and Public Policy Responses to Climate Change in a Globalized World-

Robert O. Mendelsohn
Edwin Weyerhaueser Davis Professor of Forest Policy and Professor of Economics
"Climate policy: Minimizing the present value of the sum of the abatement costs and climate damages for all time"

Gilbert Metcalf
Professor of Economics, Tufts University, and the National Bureau of Economic Research
"Distributional consequences of policies to mitigate warming effects by excise taxes for carbon dioxide emissions in the United States"

Richard Stroup (Discussant)
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and Visiting Scholoar, Department of Economics, North Carolina State University

DAY 2

-Scientific and Public Policy Choices for Dealing with Climate Change-

Richard S. Lindzen
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, MIT
"Climate physics: Separating the core from the periphery"

Peter J. Wilcoxen
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Administration and Director, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University
"Economic analysis of policy choices for dealing with climate change"

Kenneth Green (Discussant)
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

-Ethical and Theological Aspects of Climate Change-

David Henderson
Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Westminster (U.K.)
"Discussion of global salvationism"

E. Calvin Beisner
Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Social Ethics, Knox Theological Seminary, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
"Rational public policy and private choices for man's stewardship of the Earth"

Robert H. Nelson
Professor of Environmental Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
"Theological aspects of environmental economics"

Edward J. Kane (Discussant)
James F. Cleary Professor in Finance, Boston College

-Conference Conclusion-
Michael Rizzo, Summer Fellowship Program Director