GEO 103 Study Guide - Final Guide: Highway Trust Fund, Climate Change Denial, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
17 Oct 2017
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International community has agreed upon a rise of 2 degrees c above pre-industrial level as the threshold for dangerous climate change. Workers should have decent wages, working conditions: albedo reflectivity of a material, amplifying feedbacks process by which natural systems react to warming in ways that drive up temperature even further. Melting permafrost & diminishing arctic sea ice: mckibben calls these "bobby traps. " Our continued burning of fossil fuels and warming from co2 might set them off: bp deepwater horizon. Largest oil spill in us history (4. 9 million barrels of oil: cap and trade, carbon tax, cc effects in depth. Cap on carbon emissions (set by, say, the epa) that an industrial sector can emit (e. g. , electric utilities) However, if a company lowers emissions below allowed level, they can trade (sell) allowance to another company. Taxing companies or consumers for burning fossil fuels. Higher taxes = incentive to not use fossil fuels.
