WEEK 8: Wednesday May 18th , 9:30-11:30 a.m.: Solutions, part B; conclusion
OUTLINE: week 7 in black; week 8 in red
SLIDES Belanger week 8 2016 economics and solutions – pdf (pptx too big)
- Economics
- of doing nothing (solely adapting) vs. the economics of mitigation
- Actual will likely be a combination
- Capitalism, GDP/growth based economics vs. “Herman Daly” economics (no-growth/steady-state)
- Solutions? Paradigm shift? From we can’t/too expensive to WE CAN
- There is promise, but at what cost? (One might be surprised).
- Energy
- Mitigation – Agricultural revolution/biofuels: Biochar for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
- Geoengineering:
- Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and
- Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
- Biochar vs. BECCS solutions SEE MY BIOCHAR LINK IN OTHER PAGES: – (click here)
- Efficiency – the single quickest way to reduce:
- What NREL is doing: Efficiency, Solar, wind, other: OSHER 10.14.15
- Other strategies:
- CCL – carbon fee/dividend
- Cap and trade?
- Gloom and Doom? NO! IT’S A CHALLENGE, and humanity has always been challenged and we are an adaptable species that has met the challenge over and over again
SLIDES Belanger week 8 2016 economics and solutions – pdf (pptx too big)
SRM AND CDR:
NAS Climate Intervention: Preface and links (Click here); detailed reports below:
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ONLINE: CLIMATE INTERVENTION: REFLECTING SUNLIGHT TO COOL EARTH (2015), AT HTTP://WWW.NAP.EDU/READ/18988;
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AND CLIMATE INTERVENTION: CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL AND RELIABLE SEQUESTRATION (2015), AT HTTP://WWW.NAP.EDU/READ/18805.
BIOCHAR (aka Terra Preta):
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see BIOCHAR PAGE/TAB: https://denverclimatestudygroup.com/?page_id=28
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The potential for land-based biological CO2 removal to lower future atmospheric CO2 concentration BY TIM LENTON
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Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate changeWoolf et al.
NIMBY:
VIDEO ON NIMBY: by Dr. Patrick Devine-Wright showed in class: no public videos but several articles by him – google him and see what you find. The little I found:
- Beyond NIMBYism: towards an integrated framework for understanding public perceptions of wind energyhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/we.124/abstract
- Rethinking NIMBYism: The role of place attachment and place identity in explaining place-protective action:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.1004/abstract
Future Adaptation issues: sustainability
Other class coverage: related to AR5/WGII:
§ II: IPCC CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT/Working Group II (WGII): Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – volume 2, April 2014; especially see:
Summary for Policymakers (SPM)
Graphics — choose chapter and then right-click
Other links:
- IPCC: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/#.UuAsbxDn9hE
- NAS: – SEE above
- Population – TED TALK: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth?language=en
- How Washington Transformed Its Dying Oyster Industry Into A Climate Success Story http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/10/28/3713061/washington-oregon-ocean-acidification/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cptop3
- Hawaii becomes First State to Mandate 100% Renewable Energy.
- National geographic November 2015 issue:http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/special-issue/
- Email from geoengineering group to looking seriously at sucking CO2 our of the atmosphere sent as email
- Environmental Defense Fund: https://www.edf.org/card/10-climate-solutions-big-impact
- LIST OF VIDEO LINKS http://www.skepticalscience.com/denial101x-videos-and-references.html
- Greenland Is Melting Away – The New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
- Changes are happening; WE NEED TO CHANGE: 25+ Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint http://cotap.org/reduce-carbon-footprint/
- BUY USED ELECTRIC CARS: http://devc.info/ – buying a used electric car WITH TAX CREDITS; apparently can do so in Boulder