1. Climate Change (and You)
Mark van Soestbergen
ICBE
CBI Veterans April 12, 2006

2. Your war my geography lesson

4. Carbon Dioxide
Intercepts infrared waves going into space

5. Gasoline is 85.5% carbon
                                                                                                
1 gallon of conventional gasoline becomes 172 cubic feet / 4.87 cubic meters of CO2

6. 1 foot of pure CO2 per year
Every year, the United States produces enough CO2 to cover its entire land surface, including Alaska and Hawaii, with 1 foot of pure CO2.

7. Image courtesy SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

8. Globally, temperatures are projected to rise an additional
2 – 5°C in the 21st Century
We are here

11. The oceans have absorbed about 30 times more heat than the atmosphere since 1955

12. Fabian, Sep, 2003

13. Global Climate Change changes everything
CO2 changes plant behavior
Increases temperature of the atmosphere, the earth’s crust and the oceans
Affects global hydro cycle

14. Expected sea level increase 21st Century:
+ 1.2 meter
Florida + 5 meter, unavoidable w/out action
Courtesy: PBS

15. Latent atmospheric Carbon is about 188 billion ton
The atmosphere now holds 30% more carbon than a century ago.
Human emission rate in billion tC/yr 8
equilibrium
Earth
absorption rate in billion tC/yr
4.7
de-carbonization pathway
time
Latent atmospheric Carbon is about 188 billion ton

16. Toward Climate Stability™
Nice meeting all of you!
"we must arrange a complete industrial change-out in 30 years and plant 10,000,000 km2 of trees by 2010"
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