Climate Update Eugene C. Cordero Department of Meteorology San José State University, California

Climate Update

Eugene C. CorderoDepartment of Meteorology

San José State University, California

2012 Review

Weather vs. Climate

Ratio of record breaking warm days to record breaking cold days

2011 Weather Extremes

14 weather and climate disasters over $1 billion or more in damage

2012 Weather Extremes

Over $100 Billion in Weather Related Disasters

www.temperaturetrends.org

2013

Links:Fossil Fuels in 300 secondshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-J91SwP8w&list=PLCA0D057399CACE5B

Too big to solve – Colberthttp://www.bradblog.com/?p=9839

The New Deniershttp://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/05/fox-newspeak-those-who-accept-science-deemed-cl/193500

Congress:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biUc0D6_UPA&feature=player_embedded

Links:

Reaching for 400http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Doubt Tobacco/Climate parallelshttp://vimeo.com/29107248

Gigatonshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/dec/07/carbon-dioxide-doha-information-beautiful

www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/

Climate Change

Keystone

KeystoneClimate Rally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZt2ZMouB0&feature=player_embedded

Colbert spill

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/colberts-arkansas-oil-spill-exxon_n_3071539.

html

Do the Math Movie: (minute 10:00)

http://act.350.org/signup/math-movie/

15

Tell a story (1 paragraph) about fossil fuels and the connection with climate change using the following chart.

Why is our Climate Changing?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Land use change

Bolivian rain forest

Los Angeles Basin

Changes in the sun

Volcanic eruptions

Is there evidence that humans are responsible for the

warming?

Radiative forcing (Energy Bookkeeping)

Patterns of climate change (Fingerprints)

Global climate models (Predict the past)

Links:

FAQ - why is the climate changing:

www.greenninja.org/teachers.html

Technology

Social

A Technology-Based Plan

1. Improve energy efficiency2. Electrify transport3. Electrify heating4. Produce all electricity using renewables

So we have the technology

But here is the challenge…

Carbon Emissions (Gigatons)

Since 1850

1500How much more can

we safely emit? (2°C warming)

PastFossil Fuels

Estimates Reserves3000

500

At the current rate ~ 15 years

greenninja.didthis.com

Films

Scripts

Thank You!

Eugene Cordero, ProfessorDepartment of Meteorology and Climate Scienceeugene.cordero@sjsu.edu

Green Ninja: www.greenninja.org@ourgreenninjafacebook.com/ourgreenninja

Embodied Energy

Solutions require reductions in energy use…

Energy is used to make many things…

Apple

1 Energy Unit100-250 Energy

Units

Photo credit: Terry Nathan

Apple Ipod

MacBook Air -2008 13-inch MacBook Pro 17-inch MacBook Pro 15-inch MackBook Pro MacBook-2008iMac (24 inch)-2008 iMac (20 inch)-2008 LED Cinema DisplayMac Pro Mac Min iPhone 3G iPhone 3GS iPod nano iPod touch iPod shuffle

Carbon Footprint of Apple products

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Transport

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Food

Housing

Stuff