ENVE 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cycle Basis, Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright
4 Apr 2016
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Carbon comes naturally from decaying plants and animals, and from humans burning fossil fuels. Greenhouse efect: blanket trapping heat in atmosphere, minimizing release. Impacts: sea level rise, heat waves, wildire, water resources, drought and lood. Permafrost: permanently frozen ground --- permafrost carbon balance. Conclusions: stabilizing co2 is economically feasible, emissions need to peak and decline. *understand what"s going on and how we should address it. Can be enhanced through complementary acions from individuals to governments. Must irst reduce vulnerability and exposure to present climate variability. Coningent on societal values, objecives and risk percepion (recognizing diverse interests, circumstances, etc. can beneit decision-making processes); etc. Caused by interacion of halogens, chlorine, and bromine-containing gases such as. Montreal protocol (1987) agreement to eventually halt producion of ozone-depleing chemicals. Carbon sequestraion: long-term storage of carbon to miigate or defer global warming and dangerous climate change. Over enrichment of water with nutrients fosters algae growth.
