CWR Presents: : Response To Climate Change: Deny, Prevent, Adapt |
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How should we respond to climate change and observed changes in weather patterns; local drought and heavy flooding? Daily we are confronted with opinions, dogma and often stereotyping.
This debate has gone so as far as to label people "believers or non-believers". Yet, when I try to find a document on the web to just even explain to me what the so much discussed "Carbon Tax" is all about, it is difficult to find a definitive document.
I will start the talk with an overview of how it was, a simple explanation, with some new modelling, of the processes determining the interglacial cycles. From this follows a clearer explanation of the role of elevated green house gases and changes in land cover, putting us in a position to discuss the current response from the perspective of individuals, the community, industry and the government and its recent carbon taxation initiatives.
We will see most of the responses may be catalogued under the general heading of "denial" or shifting blame. So what should be done?
I will attempt to provide 4 rather simple, non spectacular, but effective suggestions for adapting to the changes we are experiencing; understanding the timescales involved and adjusting our behaviour, capitalising on new energy storage technologies that are just emerging that will allow us to match availability of renewable energy to demand, using agriculture and aquaculture to sequester more carbon and lastly, changing from traditional fixed point planning to adaptive management.
**** All Welcome ****
Speaker(s) |
J�rg Imberger, Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Western Australia Director, Centre for Water Research
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Location |
Blakers Lecture Room, Ground Floor, Mathematics Building, UWA
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Contact |
Askale Abebe
<[email protected]>
: 6488 7565
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URL |
http://www.cwr.uwa.edu.au/cwr/people.php?id=359
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Start |
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:00
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End |
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:00
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Submitted by |
Askale Abebe <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:57
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