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What:

The conference will include a symposium of scientific presentations and panel discussions addressing broad subject areas relevant to the carbon dioxide record. Several sessions will focus on efforts being made to manage carbon today and in the future and what research would be needed to support those efforts. Topics include:

  • What We’ve Learned from the Global Record

  • Terrestrial Impacts, Feedbacks & Human Adaptation

  • Oceanic Impacts, Feedbacks & Human Adaptation

  • Energy Alternatives; Mitigation Options

  • Regionally Based Efforts to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • Economic Impacts – Financial Incentives

  • Communicating Science to the Public

  • Future Measurements and Research – What Will Be Needed?

Where: Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort and Spa - Kona, Hawaii

Why: The goal of the conference is two-fold:

To highlight the importance of long-term, global records in enabling society to manage its path into the future. To facilitate communication among key elements of society who will all be involved in addressing carbon dioxide emissions in the future.

Society will need to know which efforts are working and which are not if atmospheric CO2 is to be contained. What measurements would best support this? What design would be optimum? What modeling foci would best support mitigation efforts? By looking at the successes of the past and understanding the needs of the present, we hope to gain a better understanding of what is needed for the future. Presentations and dialog from this conference will be posted permanently on the web for a broad audience and several educational products and pathways will evolve from information exchanged here.

The numerous partners will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the global atmospheric carbon dioxide record in Kona, Hawaii in November 2007. When the struggle to obtain support for a newly developed, high precision, high accuracy approach for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide in 1957, it was hard to imagine how invaluable his efforts and accomplishments would be today.

Data from a vast, globally distributed network now provide the basis of our understanding of the relationship of the role and impact of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses in global climate. This data record, and how the network evolves, will be critical to society’s having the information it needs to make decisions regarding global climate change and how best to adopt adaptation and mitigation strategies.

Though the half-century-long record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has been critical in understanding the role that this major greenhouse gas plays in the global energy budget, future measurement systems must be carefully designed and deliberately implemented to support society’s decisions in a context in which climate change is increasingly relevant.

The global network as designed has been successful in providing answers to many scientific questions regarding the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global climate change, yet critical questions in the future may require changes in network sampling design, use of additional or different techniques of measurement, closer integration of modeling and measurement, and augmentation of the measurement system.

The nature of this system will depend upon the questions being asked, the approaches being taken to address increasing CO2 emissions, and the scope of the global effort. The 50th Anniversary of the Global Carbon Dioxide Record Symposium and Celebration will bring together leaders in business, government, and science to discuss efforts being made to manage carbon dioxide today, what efforts are likely for the future, and what research will be needed to support those efforts.