GG231 Lecture Notes - Soot, Halocarbon, Smog
Document Summary
Epidemics: climate patterns rainfall patterns, natural disasters, el nino, wildfires, thawing of permafrost, desertification and drought human induced degrading of productive land leads to more desert like state, leads to loss of vegetation and soil erosion, global warming and climate change may increase this factor drought etc. A conference in 2000 came up with 3 alternative methods to reduce emissions that were ultimately not agreed on: invest in clean development mechanisms to improve carbon balance, joint implementation allows emission credits to be shared between nations, emission trading countries that meet emission targets can sell credits to those that can"t, carbon sequestration. China is the greatest burner of coal: biological sequestration involves planting more trees to filter more co2 fairly ineffective, oceanic sequestration injecting co2 deep into the ocean problem is it makes the oceans more acidic and destroys ecosystems, geologic sequestration locking co2 deep into the earth most effective.
