In this graph, you can see the CO2 emissions have clearly increased dramatically. But, income has increased as well.Thursday, January 31, 2008
IPCC Graph #2
In this graph, you can see the CO2 emissions have clearly increased dramatically. But, income has increased as well.
Mitigation of Climate Change IPCC Report
The beginning of this report has data on greenhouse has emissions and climate change. This will be very helpful to me when I write my paper (online), I can use this information. One amazing fact is "Between 1970 and 2004, global emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6, weighted by their global warming potential (GWP), have increased by 70%..."This statistic, in my final, can be the basis for answering my question. With these overwhelming numbers, why aren't people making big changes in the way they live?
"Relevant literature implies that policies and measures may induce technological change. Remarkable progress has been achieved in applying approaches based on induced technological change to stabilisation studies; however, conceptual issues remain. In the models that adopt these approaches, projected costs for a given stabilization level are reduced; the reductions are greater at lower stabilisation levels." This report, as indicated in the title, is focused on the mitigation of global warming. This quote is important for my I-Search because it tells me that technology is going to be one of the ways that climate change can be reduced. My dad has already been telling me about this: people are beginning to tele-conference instead of flying half-way around the world. This seems like one of many obvious solutions to me. But, I think the transition to this stage won't be very quick because many people have always worked, and will always worked, where the main group is.
There is a very interesting table in this report that has different aspects, "sectors," of our lives--transportation, buildings, etc...--and then explains "Key mitigation technologies and
practices currently commercially available" and "Key mitigation technologies and
practices projected to be commercialized before 2030."
Why aren't people utilizing the immense amount of options that are available now? Well, first, unfortunately many are lazy and are not willing to make the changes to their lives that are required. Also, like the Canada.com resource showed me, people won't fully act until they are forced to: the law.
I will post some tables from this report. There is a lot more information in this summary. Most of it is very detailed, but it will still be very useful to me.
"Relevant literature implies that policies and measures may induce technological change. Remarkable progress has been achieved in applying approaches based on induced technological change to stabilisation studies; however, conceptual issues remain. In the models that adopt these approaches, projected costs for a given stabilization level are reduced; the reductions are greater at lower stabilisation levels." This report, as indicated in the title, is focused on the mitigation of global warming. This quote is important for my I-Search because it tells me that technology is going to be one of the ways that climate change can be reduced. My dad has already been telling me about this: people are beginning to tele-conference instead of flying half-way around the world. This seems like one of many obvious solutions to me. But, I think the transition to this stage won't be very quick because many people have always worked, and will always worked, where the main group is.
There is a very interesting table in this report that has different aspects, "sectors," of our lives--transportation, buildings, etc...--and then explains "Key mitigation technologies and
practices currently commercially available" and "Key mitigation technologies and
practices projected to be commercialized before 2030."
Why aren't people utilizing the immense amount of options that are available now? Well, first, unfortunately many are lazy and are not willing to make the changes to their lives that are required. Also, like the Canada.com resource showed me, people won't fully act until they are forced to: the law.
I will post some tables from this report. There is a lot more information in this summary. Most of it is very detailed, but it will still be very useful to me.
IPCC Chart #1
This chart shows temperature increases all over the world, and where the physical and biological changes will occur.
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