climate reform

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climate reform

• Dr. Andrew Wallace PhD

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Overview

• Climate change / global warming
• The evidence for
• The reasons why
• What can we do about it?
• Fixing the facade
• Building a sustainable society

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Dr. Andrew Wallace PhD

• Scientist and engineer
• Electrical and Electronic engineering
• Robotics and Applied AI
• Society
• Where are we going?
• Can we do this a better way?
• Network of European Technocrats

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Climate change / global warming

• What is it?
• Planet Earths climate changes
• Warmer

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The Evidence
Whitechuck Glacier, North Cascades National
Park,1973
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The Evidence
Whitechuck Glacier, North Cascades National
Park,2006
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The Evidence
The North West Passage
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The Evidence
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The Evidence
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The Evidence
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The Reasons Why

• Linked to rising CO2
• Human activity
• most of the observed increase in globally
  averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century
  is very likely due to the observed increase in
  anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations
• IPCC

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The Reasons Why
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The Reasons Why

• Its a natural process, the Earth is warming up
  anyway.
• The Earth cooled in the early 20th cent leading
  to global cooling in the 1970s.
• Accuracy of the data
• Urban areas
• NASAs corrections
• Suns activity
• Other planets are warming up as well
• Dust clouds
• Pluto undergoing the most changes
• Ulysses star dust storm

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The Reasons Why
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The Reasons Why

• Atmospheric pressure has tripled over the past 14
  years
• From1992 Ulysses has monitored the stardust
  flowing through our Solar System.

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Summary

• Global warming / climate change is a reality
• Most likely human caused
• The way we do things causes the warming
• Might have another cause
• Human activity contributing to a natural event
• We have to live with the change!

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Effects of Global Warming / climate change

• Extreme weather
• Droughts, heaver rain, more erosion, more storms
• Sea level rising
• Local cooling
• thermohaline circulation
• Political / social problems
• Wars, people movment

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What can we do about it?

• Most efforts assume we have cause global warming
• They centre around reducing C02
• Keeping things running as they are!

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Fixing the Facade

• Kyoto Protocol
• Energy conservation
• Alternative energy sources
• Taxation
• New technologies

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Fixing the Facade

• Kyoto Protocol 1990 - 2004
• EU down 5
• US up 16
• China up 47
• India up 55
• Only Sweden and UK on target
• ECONOMIC GROWTH

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Fixing the Facade

• Energy conservation