Transcript Lecture Materials

Climate Change
(and You)
Mark van Soestbergen
ICBE
CBI Veterans
April 12, 2006
Your war my geography lesson
Carbon Dioxide
Intercepts infrared waves going into space
Gasoline is 85.5% carbon
1 gallon of conventional gasoline becomes
172 cubic feet / 4.87 cubic meters of CO2
1 foot of pure CO2 per year
Every year, the United States produces enough CO2 to cover its
entire land surface, including Alaska and Hawaii, with 1 foot of pure
CO2.
Image courtesy
SeaWiFS Project,
NASA/Goddard Space
Flight Center, and
ORBIMAGE
01-11-2002
We are here
Globally,
temperatures
are projected
to rise an
additional
2 – 5°C in
the 21st
Century
The oceans have absorbed about 30 times more
heat than the atmosphere since 1955
Fabian, Sep, 2003
Global Climate Change
changes everything

CO2 changes plant behavior

Increases temperature of the atmosphere,
the earth’s crust and the oceans

Affects global hydro cycle
Expected sea
level increase 21st
Century:
+ 1.2 meter
Florida + 5 meter,
unavoidable w/out
action
Courtesy: PBS
The atmosphere now holds 30% more
carbon than a century ago.
Human
emission rate
in billion
tC/yr
8
equilibrium
Earth
absorption rate
in billion
tC/yr
4.7
time
de-carbonization pathway
Latent atmospheric Carbon is
about 188 billion ton
-Nice meeting all of you!
"we must arrange a complete industrial change-out in 30
years and plant 10,000,000 km2 of trees by 2010"
this presentation can be downloaded from:
www.icbe.com/about/uf/lectures/index.htm
Mark van Soestbergen
[email protected]
352 367 1144 tel
352 335 9140 fax
Toward Climate Stability™