Ken Caldeira

Ken Caldeira is an American atmospheric scientist and Aerologe. Since 2005 he is a Senior Scientist at the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution and Professor in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University in. He is the author of over 150 scientific publications.

Professional career

Caldeira made ​​1978 his B. A. at Rutgers College in the art philosophy; be M. S. followed in 1988 at the Department of Applied Science degree from New York University in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. His Ph.D. he was at the same place in 1991.

Work

Ken Caldeira's research focuses on the carbon cycle of the oceans, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the physics of oceans and sea ice, the climate system and energy systems. From 2001 to 2004 he was a member of the U.S. Global Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group, 2002-2004 Member of the UNESCO International Oceanography Commission CO2 Panel of Experts, 2005 coordinating lead author of Chapter oceans of the IPCC Special Report on CO2 Capture and Storage, 2007 Committee Member of the Royal Society report on the acidification of the oceans and 2008 bis2012 advisory member of the European Project on Ocean acidification EPOCA. Since 2009 he is member of the steering committee of the Global Carbon Project. In 2009 he was a member of the Committee carried out on behalf of the Royal Socienty Geoengineering Report. In the same year he was a member of the Committee on America's Climate Choices Panel of the National Academy of Sciences.

In order to tackle climate change effectively, called Ken Caldeira 2013 with colleague James E. Hansen, Kerry Emanuel and Tom Wigley in an open letter, secure way for further use of nuclear energy as CO2 to promote friendly energy source. A " return to the nuclear force" was necessary because the resistance against nuclear power plants would jeopardize the fight against climate change. The scientists appealed to world leaders and environmental organizations to work for the development of safe nuclear power plants. The four are in their letter sure that it " ... is no realistic way to stabilize the climate, which does not require a substantial proportion of nuclear energy. " However, the risks of nuclear energy are " orders of magnitude smaller " than the dangers arising from the use of fossil fuels. In the debate on the future energy policy should decide facts, not emotions, they demanded.

Honors

In 2004 he was honored by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with Edward Teller Fellowship. In 2010 he was a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Selected Publications

• Ken Caldeira: Coral Bleaching Coral ' refugia ' amide heating seas. In: Nature Climate Change. 3, No. 5, April 25, 2013, pp. 444-445. ISSN 1758 - 678X. doi: 10.1038/nclimate1888.

• Ken Caldeira, Govindasamy Bala, Long Cao: The Science of Geoengineering. In: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 41, No. 1, May 30, 2013, pp. 231-256. ISSN 0084-6597. doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105548.

• Ken Caldeira: Avoiding mangrove destruction by Avoiding carbon dioxide emissions. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109, No. 36, September 4, 2012, pp. 14287-14288. ISSN 0027-8424. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211718109.

• Ken Caldeira: The Great Climate Experiment. In: Scientific American. 307, No. 3, August 14, 2012, pp. 78-83. ISSN 0036-8733. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0912-78.

• Ken Caldeira, NP Myhrvold: Temperature change vs.. cumulative radiative forcing as metrics for Evaluating Consequences of climate energy system choices. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109, No. 27, July 3, 2012, pp. E1813 - E1813. ISSN 0027-8424. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1206019109.

• Ken Caldeira, SJ Davis: Accounting for carbon dioxide emissions: A matter of time. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108, No. 21 24 May, 2011, pp. 8533-8534. ISSN 0027-8424. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1106517108.