Symposium Blog - CE-Project

Cheng, Lijing; et al. (2020): Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

Cheng, Lijing; Abraham, John; Zhu, Jiang; Trenberth, Kevin E.; Fasullo, John; Boyer, Tim et al. (2020): Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019. In Adv. Atmos. Sci. 37 (2), pp. 137–142. DOI: 10.1007/s00376-020-9283-7. "Because the oceans are the main repository of the Earth’s energy imbalance, measuring ocean heat content (OHC) is one of the best way to quantify the rate of global warming (Trenberth et al., 2016; Von Schuckmann et al., 2016; Cheng et al., 2018). Following reports released in the previous two years (Cheng and Zhu, 2018; Cheng et al., 2019c), this article presents new OHC data for the year 2019. These data reveal that the world’s oceans (especially at upper 2000 m) in 2019 were the warmest in recorded human history." LINK

Newsweek: Smoke from Australia fires has now reached the stratosphere, NASA says

"Smoke from the devastating bushfires in Australia has traveled so high it has reached the stratosphere—the second major layer of Earth's atmosphere. It has also completed a full circuit around the world, arriving back in the skies over the country where it was produced, according to NASA." LINK

Call for reviews: Expert Review of the First Order Draft of the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

Deadline: 02. March 2020 "The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) takes this opportunity to make you aware of an ongoing Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Expert Review. Expert comment is sought on the first-order draft of the Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The review runs from 13 January - 8 March 2020. Experts can register direct with the IPCC here; an information note explaining the process can be found here. Registrants provide a self-declaration of expertise, and those who provide comments will be acknowledged in an annex to the final report, which is scheduled to be finalized in September 2021. Refer to the decision document for the approved outline." If you're a Carbon Dioxide Removal expert, have a look at chapter 12. LINK

13.07.2015 10:03

The Symposium on the Web

To broaden the discussions during the symposium, we announced the conference on Twitter and Facebook as well starting this blog. We had no idea what the response would be like. We established the hashtag #CERSYM2015 and tweets started arriving before the people did.

Day 3 - Are we comparing apples with apples? And who likes "them apples"?

The third and final full day of the symposium again included two sessions of talks. The first, entitled "A Comparative View of Climate Engineering Options and Metrics," was aimed at taking a good look at the concepts and terms we use to evaluate and assess different types of CE technologies to establish if researchers from different fields, countries and disciplines are assessing the technologies in a comparable way.

09.07.2015 08:14

Day 2 - Can we find out what we don't know about CE? And once we find out, who has the right and the means to make the big decisions?

The second day of the symposium included two separate sessions with seven presentations each. The first session of the day, entitled "Climate Engineering Uncertainties" aimed to help us understand exactly where the blind spots in our scientific and technical knowledge of CE lie, and to explore whether these uncertainties can be reduced.

07.07.2015 22:42

Day 1 - Could we?

This week's symposium aims to deal with a wide spectrum of Climate Engineering related questions, but today's session focused on what is arguably one of the most fundamental of them all: Could we do it? Entitled "Scientific Feasibility of Climate Engineering Ideas," the first session of the week included talks by seven natural scientists and engineers who addressed the "Could we?" question from different perspectives.

Welcome to the Climate Engineering Research Symposium!

Next week from Tuesday the 7^th to Friday the 10^th of July the Climate Engineering Research Symposium will be held in Berlin. We look forward to accompanying you as you participate in this exiting international event, which will not only welcome over 130 participants from thirteen countries around the world, but will also be open to the public on Thursday 9^th to encourage what we hope will be inclusive and productive discussions.

Cheng, Lijing; et al. (2020): Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

Newsweek: Smoke from Australia fires has now reached the stratosphere, NASA says

Call for reviews: Expert Review of the First Order Draft of the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report