This Lecture of Opportunity took place on October 24, 2023.
The views presented by the faculty or other guest speakers do not reflect official positions of the Naval War College, DON or DOD.
Geoengineering the Earth’s Climate: an introduction to the scientific and governance issues
About the speaker:
Dr. Kate Ricke is an associate professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego and holds a joint appointment with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is an interdisciplinary climate scientist who combines methods from the physical climate sciences, including Earth System Modeling and analysis of environmental observations, with methods from decision theory and risk analysis. Her work focuses on a range of climate policy topics— including climate geoengineering, country level economic impacts of climate change, air quality-climate tradeoffs in climate policy, and climate-driven human migration— with a consistent theme of characterization of the strategic implications of regionally heterogeneous climate outcomes and quantification of decision-relevant uncertainties. She was part of the 2021 National Academies study committee on designing a solar geoengineering research agenda and formulating principles for research governance and a member of a multidisciplinary expert panel convened to provide a rapid review about solar geoengineering science to the UN Environment Programme.
