Session Plan 2023

 

Number

Date

Topic
1

05.04.

Introduction: what is known, and what is unknown?

Uncertainty and the role of scientists

Lars Kutzbach

2

12.04.

Introduction to the Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook

Andrés López Rivera

3

19.04.

The treatment of uncertainties in IPCC assessment reports

Jana Sillmann

4

26.04.

Open questions about numerical modelling of the complex Earth system

Jörn Behrens

Additionally:

Role-play #1: Uncertain climate futures and academic activism: The leak of the IPCC AR6 WGIII draft

5

03.05.

Open questions about Arctic feedbacks on climate change

Victor Brovkin

Additionally:

  • Panel Discussion 2023: Initial discussion of guiding question
    • Each working group will propose a guiding question for the Panel Discussion 2023
    • Before 11th May: All working groups will improve and elaborate on their initial guiding questions, finding areas of synergy with other group’s ideas
6

10.05.

Can we predict climate?

Leonard Borchert

Additionally:

  • Role-play #2: Do we still need natural-scientific research in climate science?
7

24.05.

New insights into climate dynamics through high-resolution modelling

Cathy Hohenegger

Additionally:

  • Panel discussion 2023: Second discussion of guiding question
    • Development of guiding question, with a focus on combining and synergising the suggestions of each working group
8

31.05.

The sociology of ignorance
Simone RödderAdditionally:

  • Role-play #3: Contested Knowledge – Flavours of climate change science in public and policy debates
9

07.06.

Climate change and mediating uncertainty

Matthias Revers

Additionally:

  • Role-plays #4 and #5 Election:
    • Role-play #4 will be Group 1’s suggestion “Should developed countries take more responsibility for mitigation?”
    • Role-play #5 will be Group 5’s suggestion “Should the debt of developing countries be cancelled in exchange for financing actions on climate change?”
    • More information can be found in the slides from lecture 9.
  • Panel discussion: task group status updates
10

14.06.

How to estimate the social costs of carbon

Moritz Drupp

Additionally:

  • Role-play #4: “Should developed countries take more responsibility for mitigation?”
11

21.06.

The social plausibility assessment framework
Stefan Aykut
12

28.06.

Group work: Input for the CLICCS Quarterly, Outlook 2024 and ClimateMatters blog

Additionally:

  • Role-play #5: “Should the debt of developing countries be cancelled in exchange for financing actions on climate change?”
13

05.07.

Group work presentations and/or panel discussion
14

12.07.

Feedback and conclusion