Transcript Mission October 1 2008

Mission October 23 2009
Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
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Mission October 23 2009
The United States Government has decided that
we must lead by example on the issue of climate
change and atmospheric CO2
I was contacted early this morning by the White
House and they would like to retain the Mission
2013 team to devise a twenty-five year plan to
dramatically reduce CO2 output in the U.S.
However:
It must be done in two weeks
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Mission CO2 Reduction USA
• Implementation
Consider the full spectrum of capture and
sequestration methods including crop and
woodland management--- Will need to depend
on existing technology
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STEP 1: Why should we act?
• Convince the American people of the need for
immediate action
• Make a compelling case for CO2 and
climate links
• Include polar temperature increases and sealevel rise--predictions for 25, 50, and 100 years
• Ocean acidification and implications
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STEP 2: Size of the problem
• Where are biggest point sources
and potential sinks-can you
develop regional plans ?
• What is a reasonable goal for 25
years? Stabilize, slower increase?
• Current US output of CO2
(percentage of global budget and
trends)
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STEP 3: Sequestration
• Point source capture--power plants
• Reduce fossil fuel consumption (not
mining coal is an effective way to
sequester CO2!)
• Crop choices,
yields
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• Ocean dumping, oil field
Replenishment, saline aquifers,
mineralogical reservoirs
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STEP 4: Costs and Feasibility
• Cost of action vs. costs of inaction?
• Cost per ppm of CO2?
• Feasibility--reordering of national priorities?
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STEP 5: The case for inaction or HumanInduced Climate Change denial
• Develop a sub-team opposed to
managing CO2 and climate--useful
intellectual exercise
• What are the arguments for an
against
• Can we afford it?
Is it human induced?
Why worry?
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STEP 6: Final Product
In class presentation
Friday October 23rd
30 Minutes
• Team 1: 5 people selected from all
teams present plan
• Team 2: 8 people--one from each
team to answer questions following
presentation
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• Team 3:climate change denial: ask
questions!
• Remainder of class: Ask tough
Questions!
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• QUESTIONS ??
• GET ORGANIZED---NOW!!
• We need one or two of you to come to the
front of the room--right now-- and lead the
organization
• TWO WEEKS!!
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