Extreme weather events caused by climate change are already causing widespread damage around the world through increased flooding, hurricanes, wildfires and more. These costs are not reflected in the prices we pay for fossil fuels that cause climate change. Wars in the Middle East that stem from conflicts over oil also cost trillions without being priced into fuel costs. The fossil fuel industry has spent millions on lobbying and misinformation campaigns to undermine efforts to address global warming and shift to renewable energy. Renewable energy and energy efficiency could provide everyone in the world an even higher standard of living if more widely adopted.
ITS A POWERPOINT RELATED TO DISASTER MANAGEMENT. TYPES OF DISASTERS ARE MENTIONED IN IT. MANMADE DISASTERS AND NATURAL DISASTER ARE ALSO THERE. IF YOU DOWNLOAD THIS PPT , ANIMATIONS ,SOUND EFFECTS WOULD BE SEEN AND YOU WILL SURELY LIKE IT. SO PLEASE SEE ,LIKE AND SHARE IT MORE AND MORE.THIS POWERPOINT IS MADE BY PRATHAMESH BANDEKAR AND SUMEDH PATIL (COM PATIL) ITS ALSO QUITE HELPFUL. IF YOU DOWNLOAD IT YOU WILL GET TO SEE A MYSTERY.YOU definitely WILL ENJOY IT.YOU ALSO CAN MAKE CHANGES IN IT IF YOU WANT.
Global Energy shift : Oil to Solar - The greatest energy revolution of 21st c...MAHENDRA KUMAR RASTOGI
US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement : Is it not the matter of shame and irresponsible behavior of US to international community while whole Europe , China & India are supporting this movement of change from fossils to renewable solar energy.
ITS A POWERPOINT RELATED TO DISASTER MANAGEMENT. TYPES OF DISASTERS ARE MENTIONED IN IT. MANMADE DISASTERS AND NATURAL DISASTER ARE ALSO THERE. IF YOU DOWNLOAD THIS PPT , ANIMATIONS ,SOUND EFFECTS WOULD BE SEEN AND YOU WILL SURELY LIKE IT. SO PLEASE SEE ,LIKE AND SHARE IT MORE AND MORE.THIS POWERPOINT IS MADE BY PRATHAMESH BANDEKAR AND SUMEDH PATIL (COM PATIL) ITS ALSO QUITE HELPFUL. IF YOU DOWNLOAD IT YOU WILL GET TO SEE A MYSTERY.YOU definitely WILL ENJOY IT.YOU ALSO CAN MAKE CHANGES IN IT IF YOU WANT.
Global Energy shift : Oil to Solar - The greatest energy revolution of 21st c...MAHENDRA KUMAR RASTOGI
US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement : Is it not the matter of shame and irresponsible behavior of US to international community while whole Europe , China & India are supporting this movement of change from fossils to renewable solar energy.
A Geological Perspective On Global WarmingPaul Schumann
By Peter Rose
The relative contribution of Man's activities, as opposed to Nature's activities,,to the observed recent rises in Earth temperatures, is unresolved. In addition to the oft-noted inability of climate modeling to reproduce the documented recent past, a major shortcoming of contemporary climate studies is that they rest upon very short time spans, whereas climate change considered from a geological perspective encourages much less anxiety about the climate future of the world. If it turns out that most observed global warming is the result of natural causes, as seems increasingly likely, proposed voluntary economic initiatives by Western nations to limit CO2 emissions will constitute a serious and unnecessary economic wound, self-inflicted at the worst possible time. Sunspot cycles suggest that we are about to enter -- indeed may have already begun -- an extended period of global cooling. Recent unsavory revelations (“Climate Gate”) have cast doubt on thedependability of the science underpinning Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Peter R. Rose (BS, MA, PhD, Geology, University of Texas at Austin) is a certified petroleum geologist who was Staff Geologist with Shell Oil Company; Chief, Oil and Gas Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey; and Chief Geologist and Director of Frontier Exploration for Energy Reserves Group, Inc. (now BHP Petroleum (Americas), Inc.). In 1980, he established his own independent oil and gas consulting firm, Telegraph Exploration, Inc. His clients include most major U.S. companies and prominent independents as well as many international firms and state oil companies. Dr. Rose has explored for oil and gas in most North American geological provinces and has published and lectured widely on U.S. resource assessment, basin analysis, play development, prospect evaluation, and risk and uncertainty in exploration. He has taught extensively at the professional level and was a 1985/1986 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer.
I grew up in Highland Park, the heart of Detroit, when the car industry was booming and times were good. My dad was an accountant at Plymouth, and a Marine. My mom and I sat on our couch watching President Roosevelt rally us to war with tanks and jeeps made in Detroit.
This power point is about how we are destroying our environment and some of the steps we can take to fix the escalating global problems. My sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
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"Climate change occurs due to the earth’s internal processes such as volcanic eruptions, amount of sunlight (solar radiation) coming into the earth’s atmosphere, and lastly because of human activities such as the creation o Green House Gases (GHGs). "
A Geological Perspective On Global WarmingPaul Schumann
By Peter Rose
The relative contribution of Man's activities, as opposed to Nature's activities,,to the observed recent rises in Earth temperatures, is unresolved. In addition to the oft-noted inability of climate modeling to reproduce the documented recent past, a major shortcoming of contemporary climate studies is that they rest upon very short time spans, whereas climate change considered from a geological perspective encourages much less anxiety about the climate future of the world. If it turns out that most observed global warming is the result of natural causes, as seems increasingly likely, proposed voluntary economic initiatives by Western nations to limit CO2 emissions will constitute a serious and unnecessary economic wound, self-inflicted at the worst possible time. Sunspot cycles suggest that we are about to enter -- indeed may have already begun -- an extended period of global cooling. Recent unsavory revelations (“Climate Gate”) have cast doubt on thedependability of the science underpinning Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Peter R. Rose (BS, MA, PhD, Geology, University of Texas at Austin) is a certified petroleum geologist who was Staff Geologist with Shell Oil Company; Chief, Oil and Gas Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey; and Chief Geologist and Director of Frontier Exploration for Energy Reserves Group, Inc. (now BHP Petroleum (Americas), Inc.). In 1980, he established his own independent oil and gas consulting firm, Telegraph Exploration, Inc. His clients include most major U.S. companies and prominent independents as well as many international firms and state oil companies. Dr. Rose has explored for oil and gas in most North American geological provinces and has published and lectured widely on U.S. resource assessment, basin analysis, play development, prospect evaluation, and risk and uncertainty in exploration. He has taught extensively at the professional level and was a 1985/1986 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer.
I grew up in Highland Park, the heart of Detroit, when the car industry was booming and times were good. My dad was an accountant at Plymouth, and a Marine. My mom and I sat on our couch watching President Roosevelt rally us to war with tanks and jeeps made in Detroit.
This power point is about how we are destroying our environment and some of the steps we can take to fix the escalating global problems. My sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
Nationalgeographic
music by radiohead-bloom
"Climate change occurs due to the earth’s internal processes such as volcanic eruptions, amount of sunlight (solar radiation) coming into the earth’s atmosphere, and lastly because of human activities such as the creation o Green House Gases (GHGs). "
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, but then they happen much faster than you thought they could.
The destructive impacts of the climate crisis are now following the trajectory of that economics maxim as horrors long predicted by scientists are becoming realities.
More destructive Category 5 hurricanes are developing, monster fires ignite and burn on every continent but Antarctica, ice is melting in large amounts there and in Greenland, and accelerating sea-level rise now threatens low-lying cities and island nations.
Tropical diseases are spreading to higher latitudes. Cities face drinking-water shortages. The ocean is becoming warmer and more acidic, destroying coral reefs and endangering fish populations that provide vital protein consumed by about a billion people.
Worsening droughts and biblical deluges are reducing food production and displacing millions of people. Record-high temperatures threaten to render areas of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, North Africa and South Asia uninhabitable. Growing migrations of climate refugees are destabilizing nations. A sixth great extinction could extinguish half the species on earth.
Finally people are recognizing that the climate is changing, and the consequences are worsening much faster than most thought was possible. A record 72 percent of Americans polled say that the weather is growing more extreme. And yet every day we still emit more than 140 million tons of global warming pollution worldwide into the atmosphere, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I often echo the point made by the climate scientist James Hansen: The accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases -- some of which will envelop the planet for hundreds and possibly thousands of years -- is now trapping as much extra energy daily as 500,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs would release every 24 hours.
This is the crisis we face.
Now we need to ask ourselves: Are we really helpless and unwilling to respond to the gravest threat faced by civilization? Is it time, as some have begun to counsel, to despair, surrender and focus on "adapting" to the progressive loss of the conditions that have supported the flourishing of humanity? Are we really moral cowards, easily manipulated into lethargic complacency by the huge continuing effort to deceive us into ignoring what we see with our own eyes?
More damage and losses are inevitable, no matter what we do, because carbon dioxide remains for so long in the atmosphere. So we will have to do our best to adapt to unwelcome changes. But we still retain the ability to avoid truly catastrophic, civilization-ending consequences if we act quickly.
This is our generation's life-or-death challenge. It is Thermopylae, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Lexington and Concord, Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Bulge, Midway and Sept. 11. At moments of such crisis, the United States and the world have to be mobilized, and before we ...
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Environmental Disasters -- Human FailuresOn March 28, 1979, as t.docxSALU18
Environmental Disasters -- Human Failures
On March 28, 1979, as the sun rose over Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a series of mechanical, electrical, and human failures led to what has been described as the worst nuclear power plant accident in the history of the United States. News of the accident rocked the nation, and its effects were keenly felt by those who lived in the shadow of the great concrete towers of Three Mile Island.
According to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the accident
"permanently changed both the nuclear industry and the NRC. Public fear and distrust increased, NRC's regulations and oversight became broader and more robust, and management of the plants was scrutinized more carefully. Careful analysis of the accident's events identified problems and led to permanent and sweeping changes in how NRC regulates its licensees - which, in turn, has reduced the risk to public health and safety."
Bhopal in Central India in 1984
One of the worst industrial accidents occurred in Bhopal in central India, capital of Madhya Pradesh State. In December 1984 deadly methyl isocyanate gas was leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, causing the deaths of at least 3300 people; it was the worst industrial accident in world history!
In 1989, after years of litigation, the United States owners of the plant agreed to pay the Indian government $470 million. In return, the government agreed to drop criminal charges against the company and its former chairman.
Chernobyl in 1986
The first nuclear disaster happened in Chernobyl in 1986. This was the year when the world first experienced the terror of a collective international nightmare - the explosion at the then Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986. The disaster left 2,500 dead and millions affected. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced -- many of whom have still not been able to return to their homes.
Larry West, an environmental investigative reporter wrote about the accident:
"Seventy percent of the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl landed in Belarus, affecting more than 3,600 towns and villages, and 2.5 million people. The radiation contaminated soil, which in turn contaminates crops that people rely on for food. Many regions in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are likely to be contaminated for decades. Radioactive fallout carried by the wind was later found in sheep in the UK, on clothing worn by people throughout Europe, and in rain in the United States."
Chernobyl remains the largest civil nuclear disaster to date. There are currently more than 400 commercial nuclear power reactors operating world-wide.
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Rachel Carson is one of the most influential women in the history of the environmental movement in the United States. The publication of her best-selling book, Silent Spring, marked the beginning of America environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s. A marine biologist by training, Carson discusses har ...
1. Renewables, Energy Efficiency & Electric Vehicles Are Grossly Undervalued!
Extreme weatherevents,the firstharmful disruptiveeffectsof Global Warming,are killingthousands of people aroundthe
worldand are alreadyaffectingincreasedflooding athightides inLouisiana,Miami andaroundthe world and causing
billionsof dollarsof damage,andall of these effectsare causedbyour continuedconsumptionof fossil fuels,petroleum,
natural gas, propane andcoal. HurricanesKatrinaandSandy, extreme tornadoes,tornadosinpartsof our countrywhere
theyhave neverhappenedbefore (likeSacramento!!!),floodslinkedbyscientiststorisingseascausedbyglobal heating
and 28,000 thousandSouthernCaliforniansdisplacedbydraughtcausedforestfires!Thesecostsinlostpropertyandlives
are horrendousandnotpaidfor whenwe use the fuelsandelectricitywhichaddcarbonto our atmosphere.
Thenthere was9-11 andwars inIraq, Afghanistan,now Syriacosting 4to 6 trilliondollars,whichare partof our national
debt,againnot paidforwhenwe fill upour cars nor whenflyingabout andwouldnotbe goingonif there wasno oil inthe
Middle East!
ALL these costsare veryreal and the primaryreasonswe aren’tscreamingtodo somethingaboutit are the on-goingmulti-
milliondollarcampaign of disinformationandlobbying bythe carbonindustrytocreate doubtaboutClimate Change (and
the cause of needfor/cause of the wars),asreportedbythe Unionof ConcernedScientists’ (UCS) Summerissueof Catalyst
and our collectiveaddictionto ourenergywasteful opulentlifestyle.The USCarticle basedon85 separate internal company
and trade associationdocuments,spanningthree decades,explainthatthe world’slargestfossilfuel companies –including
Chevron,ConocoPhillips,ExxonMobil,PeabodyEnergy,SouthernCompany, Shell,BP,CharlesKochandthe Global Climate
Coalition“continuetoconducta multimillion-dollarlobbyingandpublicrelationscampaigntounderminenationaland
international effortstoaddressglobal warming.” Andsee Jane Mayer’s bookDarkMoney and Merchantsof Doubt,by
Oreskes&Conway(2010).
LesterR. Brownin PlanB. pointedtothe petroleumandcoal industriesinspendingmore onlobbyingthananyother
industry foritssize.Since PlanB,the US Supreme CourtinJanuary2010, accordingto the NY Times,“Overrulingtwo
importantprecedentsaboutthe FirstAmendmentrightsof corporations,abitterlydividedSupremeCourtruledthatthe
governmentmaynotban political spendingbycorporationsincandidate elections.”(ArguedMarch24, 2009—Reargued
September9,2009—DecidedJanuary21, 2010).
Evenbefore thisdecision,BigMoneyhada biginfluence inthe US.Now itis OBSCENE!
AndRenewablesandEnergyEfficiency, the solutionstoGlobal HeatingandyouandI are the losers.
As R. BuckminsterFullersaid,“if we turntorenewable energy(notnuclear)andenergyefficiency(continuelearninghowto
do more and more withlessandless),we canprovide astandardof livingforeveryoneinthe worldbeyondwhatwe
currentlyimagine.” “The amountof solarenergythatstrikesthe eartheachhour ismore thanis consumedonthe earthin
a year!” Add to thisgeothermal atutilityscale andthe scale of commercial buildings andyourhome withadvancedheat
pumps.Alsoadd tidal or lunarenergy. Tidesworldwideare fourtimesperday,aroundthe clock largelyindependentof
weather. Withadvancedgeneratorsatthe GoldenGate,whichwouldnotimpede shippingtraffic,all the electricitycould be
generated forSanFranciscoand half of Marin.
AUTHOR: Bruce Baccei servedasa RegularArmyOfficer11 years,includingayearin Vietnamand teachingat
WestPointand has devotedhimself toenergyefficiencyandrenewableenergy, specializinginpassive solardesignsince he
joinedSERI before itbecame NREL.He currentlyleadsSMUD’s HVACR&D efforts.He isa graduate of the US Military
Academyandholdsa Master of Architecture Degree fromthe Universityof Oregon.
