Climate Justice Workshop September 17, 2019 Heather Price Chemistry North Seattle College
For millions of years CO2 has not gone above this red line. Now we are up here. Today: 412 ppm CO2
18 of the top 20 hottest years ever recorded occurred between 2000 and 2018 Green line is 1.0C above 1880 2018 https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/customize.html
Limiting warming to under 2C requires rapid transformations in every economic sector: buildings, industry, transport, energy, agriculture and forestry.
How we are solving the climate crisis. (and helping ourselves) 1900 1913 New technology is adopted even faster today than in the past. It took 100 years from the introduction of the telephone to 95% adoption. The cellphone took only 10 years from introduction to 95% adoption. We can and do make changes rapidly when we want to. Easter Morning in New York City, 5th Avenue
Summary of Climate Justice Lessons The Power of Educating Women, ELI LEAP: Exploring the Issues The Gallery of Solutions to Climate Change, ENGL& 235: Technical Writing Indigenous Peoples’ Land Management, ENGL& 101: English Composition Climate Refugees and Social Resistance, ENGL& 246: American Literature III Climate Change and Poetry, ENGL 247: Writing Poetry I Climate Change Virtual Reality, Fall 2018 Virtual Reality Simulation Sessions, BC XR Lab Three Essays on Drawdown Solutions, ENGL& 101 Climate Change and 4-Field Anthropology, ANTH& 100: Survey of Anthropology Social Inequities of Climate Change, CJ& 101: Introduction to Criminal Justice Language Institute Climate Watchdogging, POLS& 202: American Government Living Building Challenge, INDES 440, 24 students, Interior Design Climate Change Air Quality Index Database, CS 331: Database Systems The Calculus of LED Bulbs and Solar Panels, MATH& 152: Calculus II Walkable Cities & Drawdown Math Problems, MATH& 107 and MATH& 078 Composition, 36 students, English Volume Changes in Mountainous & Non-Polar Glaciers, MATH& 148: Business Calculus The Free Energy of Carbon Dioxide, CHEM& 163: General Chemistry III ]Language Institute Greenhouse Gas Simulation in a Bottle, CHEM& 121 and CHEM& 140 Mechanics of a Bicycle, PHYS& 121: General Engineering Physics Designing a Sustainable Society, PHYS& 114: General Physics I limate Change and the Spread of Disease Vectors, BIOL& 260: Microbiology, Climate Change and the Human Body, BIOL& 241: Human Anatomy and Physiology Carbon Sequestration by Trees, ENVS& 100: Survey of Environmental Science English Anthropology Criminal Justice Political Science Computer Science Mathematics Chemistry Physics Biology Env Science
NO TIME TO WASTE: THE IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING OF 1 NO TIME TO WASTE: THE IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5ºC AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WASHINGTON STATE https://cig.uw.edu/resources/special-reports/no-time-to-waste/ https://cig.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/NoTimeToWaste_CIG_Feb2019.pdf
Resources: Drawdown solutions: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ Dr. Katharine Hayhoe’s PBS series on climate change: https://www.pbs.org/show/global-weirding/episodes/season/1/ Dispelling climate myths: https://skepticalscience.com/ Conversations between Climate Scientists: http://www.realclimate.org/ NASA’s Climate Website: https://climate.nasa.gov/ University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group: https://cig.uw.edu/learn/climate-change/