ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE Climate Change Challenge and Opportunity Michael Shore DENR Climate and Mercury Workshop April 21, 2004.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
1 Dealing with Climate Change Dr Jan Wright Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.
Advertisements

What is Global Warming and Why is it a Problem ?
Future Energy Scenarios Learning Objectives: 1.What are the options for future energy use? Learning Outcomes: A/A* Grade students will be able to evaluate.
Global Climate Change Sabine Perch-Nielsen 26 February 2009 innovateZIS, Zurich International School.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Presentation Based on the Fourth Assessment Report Climate Change 2007.
Climate Change. Climate change: Changes in many climatic factors. Global warming: The rise in global temperatures.
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change James Rodger Fleming STS Program, Colby College Some highlights.
Climate Change Quiz Bowl Atmospheric Science Climate and Weather Climate Change and North Cascades Climate Change Causes Graphs and Figures
What role does the Ocean play in Global Climate Change?
4.4 Climate Change.
greenhouse the effect Heat from the sun shines onto the Earth. It passes through a blanket of gases in our atmosphere.
The current causes of climate change: the human causes.
The Economics of Global Warming
Humans are the Primary Cause of Global Warming The science indicates humans are the primary cause of global warming at the >95% probability (In science.
Statistics is a branch of mathematics that deals with the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of numerical data. Statistics is especially.
Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and Civil Engineering Dr Stuart Parkinson
Global Warming Dimi Voliotis. What is Global Warming? Global Warming is the rise in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere, generally attributed.
Basic Climate Change Science, Human Response and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Prepared for the National Workshop.
Global Warming & the Kyoto Protocols. The topic of global warming inspires heated debates among world leaders. The topic of global warming inspires heated.
How do scientists predict future climate?. Models Scientists use models to predict future climate: including temperature, CO2 levels in the atmosphere,
10:23 AM Sanders 7.9 Greenhouse Effect Unit 7: Water Cycle and Climate.
1 THE CARBON CYCLE AND GLOBAL WARMING. 2 CARBON CYCLE Movement of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, biosphere, and geosphere Movement of carbon between.
Global Warming Jayden Jones. Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and its.
R21 Global Warming & Greenhouse Effect Prior Knowledge: What do you know about Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming?
GLOBAL WARMING. Global warming is the increase of the Earth’s average surface temperature due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, which trap.
1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Climate Change Division 1 Communicating Climate Science Kevin Rosseel Communications Director Climate Change Division.
Global Warming  Public perception  Physics of anthropogenic global warming  Key diagrams  Consequences  What can you do?
Weather Condition of the atmosphere at any particular time and place Air temperature, air pressure, humidity, clouds, precipitation, visibility, wind Climate.
…in less than 20 minutes! More than you wanted to know about Climate change… Bruce Larson Stratham Memorial School Stratham, NH
VERÓNICA E. RUIZ FERNÁNDEZ.  Global warming is the increase in ocean temperatures and the effect caused by greenhouse gases and also due to natural causes.
Heating of the Atmosphere
Global Climate Change. Identifiable change in the climate of Earth as a whole that lasts for an extended period of time (decades or longer) –Usually.
Top Ten Things to Know About Global Warming. Number Ten There is a scientific consensus that human activities are very likely to affect global climate.
Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect Climate and Climate Change.
The Virginia Energy Plan Overview and Climate Change Recommendations COG climate change Steering Committee November 28, 2007 Nikki Rovner Deputy Secretary.
Global Warming Sevgi Cetinkaya. Description increase of the mean temperature in the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans specially the climatic changes through.
The Era of Fossil Fuels Fossil fuels: petroleum, natural gas and coal (organic) Currently 90% of current US energy from from fossil fuels Expected oil.
Philip Wright Head of Climate Change and Air, ERAD Changing our Ways Executive action on climate change.
NOTES 20 – The Carbon Cycle, The Greenhouse Effect, and Global Warming.
Global Warming Climate Change. The Question  The question is NOT whether the average global temperature is going up.  The question is whether or not.
Earth’s Changing Environment Lecture 1 The Next Mass Extinction?
Global Warming and Green House effect. By. Maci, Jessica.
C LIMATE C HANGE. 1. Which of the following description about the climate change in Hong Kong in recent years is INCORRECT ? Temperature rises Visibility.
Carbon footprint By. Sarah Case. What is a Carbon Footprint?: A measurement of the effect of a project on the climate in terms of the amount of carbon.
What is Climate Change?. Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. In other words,
 Journal: Compare and contrast the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle.
Kyoto protocol By: Delaja,Alondra,and Kalynn. Definition of Kyoto protocol International treaty among industrialization nations that set mandatory limits.
The Greenhouse Effect Subtitle. What you need today: Pencil Bellringer sheet Everything else on the counter. Bellringer # 3 What are greenhouse gases?
LO: To be able to interpret graphs to explain if the climate is changing To be able to construct a diagram to show the greenhouse effect To explain the.
Global Warming Andrés López Falero ENGL ONL Dr. Alex Xavier Caride González.
FOSSIL FUELS IN THE ATMOSPHERE By: Talmage Rollins.
By Brodie and Jackson. Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and its oceans,
Aim: How do increased carbon dioxide concentrations on our planet affect life?
Cloud formation and Atmospheric CO2. Cloud Formation There are a few ways clouds form 1.Rising Hot Air 2.Warm air over a cold body of water 3.On Mountainsides.
Page 1 TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE Canada’s Approach.
CHAPTER 13 – ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Section 3a – Climate Change.
What is today’s Anthropogenic Radiative Forcing?
Causes and Impacts of Climate Change
Our Changing Atmosphere
14.4 The Human Factor SWBAT compare and contrast the greenhouse effect and global warming; identify how humans impact climate.
Chapter 9 How should governments in Canada respond to political and economic issues?
Temperature and CO2 Trends.
24/02/2019 Climate Change Climate Change1 - Observations.
Greenhouse the effect.
Human Impacts on Climate Change
The Art of Mind Mapping!.
Top Ten Things to Know About Global Warming
Top Ten Things to Know About Global Warming
NOTES 36 – The Carbon Cycle, The Greenhouse Effect, and Global Warming
Presentation transcript:

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE Climate Change Challenge and Opportunity Michael Shore DENR Climate and Mercury Workshop April 21, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE2 Two Reasons NC should pay attention to climate change: – Challenge: Environmental/Economic Issues – Opportunity: Carbon Marketplace

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE3

4 CarbonMarketplace Registry-or-Reporting Selling Credits Supply Ag, Hog, Forestry, Industry Demand Utilities, Manufacturers Reporting Targets Caps (Buying) Pilot Market

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE5 Emission credit dollars will go to out of state suppliers Emission credit dollars will go to out of state suppliers The longer NC waits, the higher the cost of reduction efforts The longer NC waits, the higher the cost of reduction efforts The longer NC waits, the worse the environmental/economic impacts The longer NC waits, the worse the environmental/economic impacts If NC is asleep at the wheel...

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE6 North Carolina is already experiencing the effects of climate change and will continue to do so North Carolina is already experiencing the effects of climate change and will continue to do so There will be national standards, eventually, and greenhouse gas marketplace There will be national standards, eventually, and greenhouse gas marketplace Will NC be ready or caught off guard? Will NC be ready or caught off guard? Bottom Line on Climate

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE7 Registry-or-Reporting Selling Credits Supply Ag, Hog, Forestry, Industry Demand Utilities, Manufacturers Reporting Targets Caps (Buying) Pilot Market

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE8 Greenhouse gases are a blanket that keeps the Earth warm

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE9 CO 2 & temperature are correlated

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE10

11 Global temperatures are rising

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE12 Risks and Impacts $

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE13 A rise in global average temperature has already occurred and temperature will continue to rise over the next 100 years Warming is mostly due to human activities – – mainly the burning of fossil fuels The greater our emissions of greenhouse gases, the more the severe the adverse impacts of climate change will be. – Assessments by the US National Academy of Sciences and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientific Consensus

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE14