1. Climate Science and Energy Options Wednesday 30 Jan.2008 Focus the Nation The Evergreen State College Dr. E.J. Zita zita@evergreen.edu http://academic.evergreen.edu/z/zita/meetings/08ftn/keynote.pdf

2. Climate Science: IPCC and beyond UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Fourth Assessment Report - co-winner of Nobel Peace Prize http://www.ipcc.ch http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/press/ipcc-biographic-notes.pdf

3. IPCC: Climate Science ___ scientists, ___ countries, thousands of articles, 6 years I. Evidence: The Physical Science Basis II. Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability III. Mitigation of climate change Scientific American, Aug.2007

4. I. Evidence for climate change http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/

5. II. Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.htm

6. III. Mitigation of climate change: Energy Options http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.htm

7. Energy options…

8. A Grand Solar Plan Provide 69% of US electricity by 2050 30,000 sq miles of PV arrays in the desert 16,000 sq miles of solar thermal Store energy with under ground compressed air 2100: 100% electricity, 90% total, total land__ Scientific American, Jan.2008

9. Solar Power - challenges

10. Solar Power - promises

11. Brief Reports

12. Thank you Chelsie Papiez, Dr. Jean MacGregor, and FTN organizers Dr. Richard Gammon, UW-Seattle Colleagues at Chautauqua Institutes http://192.211.16.13/z/zita/meetings/Chau07/ChauCC.htm Colleagues at Evergreen Faculty Summer Institutes Evergreen students, especially Energy Systems and Science Seminar

13. References