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The Problem is Real The Problem is Huge The Problem Can be Solved What Elementary and Middle

The Global Environmental Problems can be Solved: Preparing Elementary and Middle School Students to Envision a Better Future. The Problem is Real The Problem is Huge The Problem Can be Solved What Elementary and Middle School Students Need to Know.

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The Problem is Real The Problem is Huge The Problem Can be Solved What Elementary and Middle

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  1. The Global Environmental Problems can be Solved: Preparing Elementary and Middle School Students to Envision a Better Future. • The Problem is Real • The Problem is Huge • The Problem Can be Solved • What Elementary and Middle School Students Need to Know

  2. Today’s Children Must Solve The Problem of Global Warming • The Problem is Real • The Problem is Huge • The Problem Can be Solved • What Elementary and Middle School Students Need to Know

  3. World Annual Carbon Dioxide Emissions: 1980-2000 http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/total.html#IntlCarbon The Rosetta Stone2100 Mt(C) = 1 ppmv(CO2)

  4. 5000 2500 4500 2000 3000 3500 4000 Atmospheric pCO2 vs Year 2000 7x BAU 10% Injected 25% Injected 50% Injected 100% Injected 10% Removed 25% Removed 50% Removed 100% Removed 1800 6x 1600 5x 1400 1200 pCO2 (ppm) 4x 1000 3x 800 600 2x 400 1x 200 Year 5600 GT carbon consumed = 80% of FF reserves.

  5. Surface Air Warming (°F) 2xCO2 Climate 4xCO2 Climate GFDL Model (Manabe & Stouffer)

  6. Growth Rate of Carbon Reservoirs

  7. ED US Land Use History Primary Crop Pasture Secondary

  8. Today’s Children Must Solve The Problem of Global Warming • The Problem is Real • The Problem is Huge • The Problem Can be Solved • What Elementary and Middle School Students Need to Know

  9. Today’s Children Must Solve The Problem of Global Warming • The Problem is Real • The Problem is Huge • The Problem Can be Solved • What Elementary and Middle School Students Need to Know

  10. Carbon Capture Carbon Storage Carbon Science Carbon Policy Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton, 2001-2010 $20,100,000 funding from BP and Ford.

  11. Hydrogen Power • Combustion: 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O + Energy • Fuel Cell: 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O + Electricity

  12. Geologic Sequestration

  13. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PEI / CMI

  14. Other Options Biomass Energy Enhance Natural Sinks Conservation Wind Energy Solar Energy Nuclear Fission Nuclear Fusion

  15. Reductions Required by 2050 = ~ 6 GT Mitigation Size of 1 GT Global Business Risk Magic bullets after 2050: Fusion, solar CO2  CH3OH, solar splitting of water.

  16. Today’s Children Must Solve The Problem of Global Warming • The Problem is Real • The Problem is Huge • The Problem Can be Solved • What Elementary and Middle School Students Need to Know

  17. The Problem Is Real Coal, Oil, Natural Gas Atmosphere Geologic Reservoirs, Plants, & Soils Ocean

  18. Transfer from Atmosphere to Land Carbon in Living Trees 90 150 0 30 120 60 Years Since Abandonment Indoor Alternative: Grow plants in pots, dry them in an oven, weigh them and divide by 2. This yields the carbon that came from the atmosphere. Multiply by 44/12 and you have the total mass of CO2 that was taken from the atmosphere.

  19. The Problem is Huge On average a US citizen produces roughly 20 tons! of CO2 The CO2 that comes from your tailpipe weighs 3 times as much as the gasoline you put in. The global average per capita production of CO2 is only 4 tons. Personal carbon accounting. How much greenhouse gas is produced by your family’s car, by heating your house, by the electricity your family uses, by your school, etc.? How much do people in other cultures produce? To prevent dangerous global warming, global production of CO2 must stabilize through 2050, and this means that US consumption must drop as other societies industrialize.

  20. Global Warming: IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change): http://www.ipcc.ch/ CMDL (Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory): http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ GFDL (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Home Page): http://www.gfdl.gov/ NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research): http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ncar/ Hadley Centre: http://www.met-office.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/index.html

  21. The Problem Can be Solved Fuel Cell Cars Geologic Sequestration Wind Power Solar Power Biomass Energy Conservation Nuclear Power

  22. Solutions: DOE – Kidspage: http://www.netl.doe.gov/coalpower/sequestration/kidspage/main.html CMI (Carbon Mitigation Initiative) http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/ Stanford GCEP website: http://gcep.stanford.edu/

  23. Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/Electrochemistry/doc/fuelcell.html http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/97/fuelcel3.html http://ethics-www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_94.html http://www.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/ http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/RT2000/5000/5830palaszewski1.html http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/index_e.htm?/news/top/1999/t90422a_e.htm http://www.autobytel.com/content/research/index.cfm?id=4;4&aid=90&action=showarticle Geologic Sequestration: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002NC/finalprogram/abstract_32351.htm http://www.netl.doe.gov/coalpower/sequestration/geologic.html Bioenergy: http://www.eere.energy.gov/state_energy/tech_biomass.cfm?state=NJ http://www.ott.doe.gov/rbep/organization.html http://weboflife.ksc.nasa.gov/currentResearch/currentResearchHardware/bpsAmes.htm http://www.ott.doe.gov/biofuels/ http://www.ott.doe.gov/biofuels/history_of_biofuels.html http://www.ott.doe.gov/biofuels/links.html http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/ http://www.ott.doe.gov/biofuels/environment.html http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/bfdpmain.html http://www.ott.doe.gov/biofuels/energy_security.html

  24. Solar Energy: http://www.eere.energy.gov/state_energy/tech_solar.cfm?state=NJ http://www.eere.energy.gov/state_energy/technology_overview.cfm?techid=1 http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge2/applitech/spsolar.html http://www.solarquest.com/schoolhouse/Task.asp?id=1348 http://www.eere.energy.gov/solar_decathlon/kids.html Wind Energy: http://www.nrel.gov/clean_energy/wind.html http://www.eere.energy.gov/state_energy/tech_wind.cfm?state=NJ http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge2/applitech/renew.html http://www.buffalopix.com/windmills.htm Nuclear Fission and Fusion: http://nepo.ne.doe.gov/page1.html http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Snuclear.htm http://wwwofe.er.doe.gov/ http://www.ofes.fusion.doe.gov/More_HTML/About%20Fusion.html http://www.ofes.fusion.doe.gov/Education.html http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/FusEdWeb-menu.html http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/FusEdWeb-home.html

  25. The Problem is Real • The Problem is Huge • The Problem Can Be Solved • What Elementary and • Middle School Students • Need to Know Today’s Children Must Solve the Problem of Global Warming

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