Human-caused climate change severely threatens humanity and Earth as we know it. For several decades, the accepted approach for mitigating climate change has focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What we need to do, climate activists claim, is to avoid using energy where we can, use existing energy more efficiently, and convert energy sources from fossil fuels to renewables.
Although these conservations and technical solutions are available, for a cost, they are not being implemented nearly fast enough. Considering the potentially massive magnitude and scope of climate change, assuredly altering human life and the entire Earth in profound ways, it is worth taking a step back and looking at climate change with a broader lens. Drawing on knowledge from science, philosophy, and psychology, Stickel will examine the likely outcomes of climate change, why so little progress is being made to mitigate it, and what it means if we fail.
Dr. Stickel is a Director of R&D at Carbon America, a startup company developing and deploying carbon-capture technology. He has 20+ years of national-lab and industrial experience leading and performing R&D for carbon capture, energy sustainability, biofuels, and biopharmaceuticals. He has co-authored more than 40 journal articles that report on the results of these research programs. Jonathan has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Davis. This presentation is a private endeavor not associated with Dr. Stickel’s employer.
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Featured by the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, recorded on April 28, 2024. Contact: jcres@cres-energy.org, cres-energy.org/. Video production by Martin Voelker.
Title image by NASA, ID JPL-20171011-OCOf-0002-NASA Pinpoints Cause of Earths Recent CO2 Spike
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The Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) is dedicated to the advancement of all forms of renewable energy (RE), energy efficiency (EE), and their synergy with sustainability and economic development. Learn more at cres-energy.org.
CRES features several local monthly speaker series throughout the state, provides speakers, experts, and workshops, and weighs in on state energy policy.
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