GEOG 205 Lecture Notes - Global Warming Potential, Joint Implementation, Montreal Protocol
Document Summary
Adaptation: preparing human communities or the future conditions of climate changes: mitigate emissions. Bury co2 in mines and oil wells, or in the deep oceans increase biological uptake in oceans, such as fertilizing oceans with iron (fe) which is a limiting nutrient. We have been doing this since the late 1980s. A possible solution is to increase the amount of photosynthesis happening in the ocean by increasing the concentration of co2. Problems with this approach: changes the nutrients and chemicals of the sea life, other limiting nutrients (p, n) may limit bloom, side effects include production of tings like neurotoxins (shown in some laboratory experiments) Nitrous oxide increase efficiency with which n fertilizers are used in agriculture: reduce burning of fossil fuels and biomass. Examples of adaptation: use scarce water more efficiently drip water agricultural system, adapting building codes to new storms/conditions, building flood defences/enhancing existing dyke systems, develop drought tolerant crops.
