"Climate Change and Risk Analysis"
Satutday February 20
10AM to 11AM SL time
Over the last 40 years, a wide scientific consensus predicted a global,
annual average, temperature increase due to human emissions of carbon
dioxide plus the feedback of the amount of water vapor that the
atmosphere can contain as the atmospheric temperatures increased. The
primary focus of scientific policy recommendations was mitigation of
such global warming by shifting to carbon neutral energy production
Nonetheless, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 has continued to
increase from a preindustrial value of 285 ppm (parts per million) to a
concentration in 2000 of 370 ppm to about 418 ppm today, high than any
prior time in human history.. This increase is sufficient that we can no
longer focus only on global emissions reduction but must reckon with
local adaptations to already existing economic and social system risks,
where a risk is considered to be an undesirable event stemming from a
changing climate.
This initiates a project, often at the level of cities and counties,
of identifying potential risks, estimating various levels of likelihood,
tying those levels to consequences for human lives, social systems, and
economics, and then pursuing means of adapting to reduce the risks.
Presentation by Dr. Keith Grant
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