Unit 3 Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Intelligence.pdf
Uncle Sam Wants You – In the War Against Climate Change
1. Uncle Sam Wants You
to Help Save the Planet
Elton B. Sherwin
Venture Capitalist,
Author, Businessman
What Can a
College Student
Do About Climate
Change?
2. Here Today to Recruit You in
the Battle to
Save the Planet
Talk specifically about what you can do
4. Some Changes Will Be Subtle
White House Report on Climate Change
Lower Emissions Scenario, 2080-2099
5. Some Changes Will Be Dramatic
White House Report on Climate Change
Higher Emissions Scenario, 2080-2099
6. Some Models Now Predict
Higher Emissions Scenario, 2080-2099
Half the nation
enduring summers
where 100º days
are common
Tropical diseases
invading America’s
shores
Wine making
moving to the
northern states
7. Elton B. Sherwin
Venture Capitalist, Author, Businessman,
Board of Directors of Six Companies –
Including NRG Dynamix, Hybrid Vehicles
November 29, 2010
Notre Dame
de Namur University
8. Two Visions of 21st Century
Two Different Roads
We Must Choose
10. Repeat Last 100 Years
Business as usual:
Continued industrialization using fossil fuels
Double the number of cars
Double the number of coal-fired power
plants
Double air pollution
Add 2 or 3 billion additional people
Population of six to nine “new Americas”
16. Ocean Rise Estimates this Century
16 inches
3 feet
11 feet
EPA and National Research
Council Estimates
6 feet
17. SOURCE: Inundation data from Knowles, 2008. Additional salt pond elevation data by Siegel and Bachand, 2002.
Aerial imagery is NAIP 2005 data. http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/planning/climate_change/climate_change.shtml
16 Inches
of Sea Rise
San Jose
San
Francisco
Vallejo
San Rafael
Oakland
18. SOURCE: Inundation data from Knowles, 2008. Additional salt pond elevation data by Siegel and Bachand, 2002.
Aerial imagery is NAIP 2005 data. BCDC.gov
Foster City
East Palo AltoMenlo Park
16 Inches
of Sea Rise
Silicon
Valley
19. SOURCE: Inundation data from Knowles, 2008. Additional salt pond elevation data by Siegel and Bachand, 2002.
Aerial imagery is NAIP 2005 data. BCDC.gov
Moffett Field
237
Sun,
Google,
and, Cisco
all at risk
20. July Temperatures
2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy
www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation
California’s
agricultural
regions will be
hard hit
21. Midcentury
Increase of 5 Degrees Fahrenheit
2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy
www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation
5+
22. Could See Increases of 10 to 14
Degree Fahrenheit in Central Valley*
2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy
*“Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California”
Christopher B. Field and 17 coauthors, June 23, 2004, PNAS
10+
23. Smaller snowpack
More water shortages
Less water for agriculture
“Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California”
Christopher B. Field and 17 coauthors, June 23, 2004, PNAS
24. Heat Waves in Los Angeles
Basin Will Be Much More
Frequent
Dan Steinberg, Associated Press
“Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California” Christopher B. Field and 17 coauthors, June 23, 2004, PNAS
30. Ice Sheets Collapse
Consequences
are Huge
20+ Feet of
Ocean Rise
Image: Roger Braithwaite, University of Manchester (UK)
NSF Website and the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
34. Methane Burps
A Ticking Time Bomb
There are enormous
quantities of naturally
occurring greenhouse
gasses trapped in ice-like
structures in the cold
northern muds and at the
bottom of the seas.
Published on 15 Dec 2004 by Baltimore Sun (Common Dreams). Archiv ed on 15 Dec 2
by John Atcheson
Image courtesy of NASA
36. An Area the Size of Germany and
France Combined is Melting
Unprecedented
and
Irreversible
37. “The climate is nearing tipping
points. Changes are beginning
to appear and there is a
potential for explosive
changes, effects that would be
irreversible”
James Hansen,
Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for
Space Studies
The Observer, February 15, 2009,
38. “Climate change is real. It's
happening now.”
Senator John McCain
August 24, 2009
LA Times
Kristen Wyatt Associated Press http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-
global-warming-national-parks,0,6162897.story
39. In Your Lifetime
Temperatures will rise faster
More extinctions
More climate refugees
40. Business As Usual
Collapse
North Pole
Greenland
West Antarctic
Himalayas
Melting permafrost
Acidification of oceans
Rapid species extinction
Ocean clathrates (frozen methane)
Deforestation and mega fires
Six of These will
Happen in Your
Lifetime
41. Why is This
Happening?
Burning too much stuff
Coal
Tropical forests
Wood and agricultural waste
Being Inefficient
10% efficient homes
18% efficient cars
Air pollution
Soot
CO2
CO
Methane
Ozone
Nitrous Oxide
HFCs/CFCs
48. Put More Information On-line
www.energyrating.gov.au 1
Brand
Refrigerators-
Freezers
Model
Total
Volume
(litres)
Energy
Consumption
(kWh/annum)
10 Yr
Energy
Cost
Star
Rating
DAEWOO FRN-U20__I 603 515 $875 *****
WHIRLPOOL 6E_2__XR_ 640 614 $1,043 *****
SAMSUNG SRS767DGB 768 731 $1,242 ****
GENERAL
ELECTRIC
PCG25
GSG25MIP__
761 729 $1,239 ****
1
There is much to like about the Australian government’s site, foremost is showing the ten-year cost of
55. “The time for action is now.”
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
56. Elton’s Focus
Buildings
Accurate grades
Mega-projects sip energy
Fast action greenhouse agents
Soot, methane, CO, ozone,
refrigerants
Joint action with China
Next year
NGOs take a family planning pledge
Subsistence farmers
YouTube
61. Use Your Skills and Passions
Teach or train
Research, count, measure
Improve efficiency – upgrade buildings
Reduce emissions
Write, blog, Facebook
Start a new group
Contest
Service project
Video production
62. Work on Policy Issues
Air pollution
Carbon tax
Waste management
DMV fees
Congestion fees
Urban planning
International relations…
Or
63. Many Opportunities
Pool pumps
Window films
Motor controls
Smart lighting
Building tune ups
Thermal storage on air conditioners
Green building code recommendations
Research
Smart appliances
64. Pick One
School
Work
Church
A nonprofit
A local dump
Your utility
One town (outside of US)
A local water treatment
plant
City planning department
State or federal
government
A local university
On the web
In the media
With the elderly
With low-income housing
With local agriculture
and Focus
65. You Did Not Create the Problem
You Are Inheriting It
It Will Change Your World
69. Recent Past, 1961-1979
Higher Emissions Scenario, 2080-2099
Lower Emissions Scenario, 2080-2099
Number of Days Over 100ºF
White House Report on Climate Change
70. Recommended Label
In Monthly Utility Bill
C-
B+
Electricity**
Gas**
*125 is highest score
1 is lowest
Compared to all federal buildings in
America
(See Inverted Scale with Progressive Weighting)
** The energy grade is determined
comparing this building to other similar
buildings in similar climates
74*
Image from iStockphoto
71. Why This Label
Grades motivate change
Rewards small
improvements
Automatically update
monthly
Universal participation
Does not require pre-audits
Fair: works for all sizes of
buildings
Drive dramatic reductions
in energy consumption
76. Sector Specific Abatement Cost Curves
Agriculture in the UK
The First Report of the UK Committee on Climate Change
December 2008
77. US DOE. CO2 in America. Excludes other greenhouse pollutants: methane,
Soot, CFCs, etc. Also excludes embedded energy in imports and most impacts from Agriculture.
CO2 Emissions:
Circled sources are
mostly buildings