Introduction to solutions: TED video

The following Ted video is really interesting, because, as usual, it provides information in a very casual and understandable way. Also, it is a perfect introduction for our next entries.

Things that really caught my attention:

• I think the paper from 1953 about "How industry may change climate" is really interesting, and in case you want to look at it, it can be found here.

• Nowadays, we are always reading about current projections, and (at least I) didn't know how close/far away old projections turned out to be in comparison with reality. In minute 1:30 he says skeptics did not believe the future to be as terrible as the worst case scenario considered, and the future was actually worse than the worst case scenario. I consider this to be really interesting, and you can read more about it here.

• I consider the following image very enlightening, given that it summarizes the three types of possible solution to this climate change problem. Also, we can compare the importance given to geoengineering with the importance given to the other two solutions by looking at the titles of the IPCC workgroups. (The workgroup II of the IPCC is called "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", and the third "Mitigation of Climate Change".)

We will discuss his particular "solution" to climate change via geoengineering in depth in another post. 

I hope you enjoyed it! 

:) goodbye!!

PS: a really interesting interview with David Keith (the lecturer in the video) about his views on why geoengineering is a great solution to our current problem can be found here.