The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Richard Gammon
4-5:30, Tuesday, October 20, 2009, LH 1
PLATO Royalty Lecture Series[1]
Richard Gammon Professor of Oceanography Atmospheric Sciences UW (20 October 2009) stressed that artificial carbon sources could not leak for 10,000 years and proposed preferred carbon sequestration under the deep sea; or putting sun shields in the space (using satellites and thin panels to refract ultraviolet away from Earth) or adding sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere as a cooling effect: ntroducing Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis.
Abstract: Prof. Gammon discussed several carbon cycle feedbacks which are enhancing the predicted climate change, and suggested geo-engineering solutions, including carbon sequestration.
The Speaker: Dr. Gammon is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Oceanography, and Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. He has served as Co-Director of the UW Program on the Environment (2004-2006). He received a BA in Chemistry from Princeton University (1965), and MA and PhD in Physical Chemistry from Harvard University (1970). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry, oceanography, atmospheric sciences, earth system science, and environmental studies. His research has focused atmospheric trace gases critical to climate change. Dr Gammon remains actively involved in improving the public understanding of the climate change challenge.
Dr Gammon was a co-author of the first Scientific Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1990). He served as Chief of the Carbon Dioxide Program, Geophysical Monitoring for Climate Change, directing the US program to measure CO2 in the global atmosphere (NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Boulder, 1982-84).
Companion Reading
( Note to Students: Please be aware that your program might have additional reading! Check your respective program web site.)
Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). 2007. Climate Change: 2007. Synthesis Report (Summary for Policy Makers. Approved at IPCC Plenary XXVII (Valencia, Spain, 12-17 November 2007). This summary represents the formally agreed statement of the IPCC concerning key findings and uncertainties contained in the Working Group contributions to the Fourth Assessment Report. Available here.
[1] This Lecture is sponsored by Evergreen’s PLATO Royalty Fund, established with royalties from computer assisted instruction (CAI) software, written by Evergreen faculty John Aikin Cushing and students in the early 1980’s, for the Control Data PLATO system.
The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Richard Gammon
4-5:30, Tuesday, October 20, 2009, LH 1
PLATO Royalty Lecture Series<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[1]<!–[endif]–>
Abstract: Prof. Gammon will discuss several carbon cycle feedbacks which are enhancing the predicted climate change, and then review suggested geo-engineering solutions, including carbon sequestration.
The Speaker: Dr. Gammon is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Oceanography, and Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. He has served as Co-Director of the UW Program on the Environment (2004-2006). He received a BA in Chemistry from Princeton University (1965), and MA and PhD in Physical Chemistry from Harvard University (1970). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry, oceanography, atmospheric sciences, earth system science, and environmental studies. His research has focused atmospheric trace gases critical to climate change. Dr Gammon remains actively involved in improving the public understanding of the climate change challenge.
Dr Gammon was a co-author of the first Scientific Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1990). He served as Chief of the Carbon Dioxide Program, Geophysical Monitoring for Climate Change, directing the US program to measure CO2 in the global atmosphere (NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Boulder, 1982-84).
Companion Reading
( Note to Students: Please be aware that your program might have additional reading! Check your respective program web site.)
Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). 2007. Climate Change: 2007. Synthesis Report (Summary for Policy Makers. Approved at IPCC Plenary XXVII (Valencia, Spain, 12-17 November 2007). This summary represents the formally agreed statement of the IPCC concerning key findings and uncertainties contained in the Working Group contributions to the Fourth Assessment Report. Available at xxx.
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<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[1]<!–[endif]–> This Lecture is sponsored by Evergreen’s PLATO Royalty Fund, established with royalties from computer assisted instruction (CAI) software, written by Evergreen faculty John Aikin Cushing and students in the early 1980’s, for the Control Data PLATO system.