Representative activities against climate change
which can cause abnormal climate events are ‘Mitigation’ and ‘Adaptation’. ‘Mitigation’
is that reduce emission of greenhouse gas for decreasing rate of climate
change. And ‘Adaptation’ minimizes the damage of already realized abnormal
climate. From now, international negotiation or national effort focused on ‘Mitigation’;
however there is a rising interest on ‘Adaptation’ because of increased damage
by climate change recently. Industry has an important role of effort to reduce
greenhouse gas. But damage due to climate change is a problem that should care
for all citizens, and local government to have more interest than the central
government for climate adaptation.
May 09, 2013 was recorded as the date of the monumental work in the history of earth sciences. Because concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was finally exceed 400ppm. PPM is the measurement of the pollutant and that means parts per million. Thus, it can be explained if we assume the current air we breathe is one million particles, it contains 400 of carbon dioxide particles. It seems like it is very small amount, but in environmental issue the small amount can cause huge effect. Exceeding 450ppm which environmental scientists presented in the last is seems to be a matter of time because it is increased by 1~1.5ppm a year. 400ppm by symbolic figures that it is not connected to a specific damage at first moment. However it can be likened to overweight patients’ risk of heart attack is likely much higher when be excessively overweight
There were many opposed theory against that Industrialization is the reason of climate change. However, recent survey of scientists, only 3% are in disagreement. Therefore the theory of climate change is now accepted as a dogma. In particular, in the meantime, U.S which was very lukewarm about the international regulatory on greenhouse gas ‘Kyoto Protocol’ showing the signs of changing position with recent extreme weather damage to the U.S. The Midwest grain belt is suffered from alternating droughts and floods, and at the end of 2012 in the New York has a strong typhoon wore a lot of damage due to Sandy, These phenomena have been climate scientists have been warning of things. Rising sea levels which is occurred in coastal countries and the related news about extreme weather events occurring around the world are now too familiar to receive great attention.
However discussion of the international greenhouse gas regulations is still unsolved. Each country agrees about concerns about climate change, but they postpone the agreement of regulation for reasons of industrial damage. That possibility of United States influential on the international community changes the position and show the new leadership cannot be excluded but for the time being there seems continue to increase in carbon dioxide. On the one hand involved the international effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet inevitably efforts to adapt to climate change can no longer be neglected.
May 09, 2013 was recorded as the date of the monumental work in the history of earth sciences. Because concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was finally exceed 400ppm. PPM is the measurement of the pollutant and that means parts per million. Thus, it can be explained if we assume the current air we breathe is one million particles, it contains 400 of carbon dioxide particles. It seems like it is very small amount, but in environmental issue the small amount can cause huge effect. Exceeding 450ppm which environmental scientists presented in the last is seems to be a matter of time because it is increased by 1~1.5ppm a year. 400ppm by symbolic figures that it is not connected to a specific damage at first moment. However it can be likened to overweight patients’ risk of heart attack is likely much higher when be excessively overweight
There were many opposed theory against that Industrialization is the reason of climate change. However, recent survey of scientists, only 3% are in disagreement. Therefore the theory of climate change is now accepted as a dogma. In particular, in the meantime, U.S which was very lukewarm about the international regulatory on greenhouse gas ‘Kyoto Protocol’ showing the signs of changing position with recent extreme weather damage to the U.S. The Midwest grain belt is suffered from alternating droughts and floods, and at the end of 2012 in the New York has a strong typhoon wore a lot of damage due to Sandy, These phenomena have been climate scientists have been warning of things. Rising sea levels which is occurred in coastal countries and the related news about extreme weather events occurring around the world are now too familiar to receive great attention.
However discussion of the international greenhouse gas regulations is still unsolved. Each country agrees about concerns about climate change, but they postpone the agreement of regulation for reasons of industrial damage. That possibility of United States influential on the international community changes the position and show the new leadership cannot be excluded but for the time being there seems continue to increase in carbon dioxide. On the one hand involved the international effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet inevitably efforts to adapt to climate change can no longer be neglected.
The important technology of mitigation, CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage)
CO2 is emitted principally from the burning of fossil fuels,both in large combustion units such as those used for electric power generation and in smaller, distributed sources such as automobile engines and furnaces used in residential and commercial buildings. CO2 emissions also result from some industrial and resource extraction processes, as well as from the burning of forests during land clearance. CCS would most likely be applied to large point sources of CO2, such as power plants or large industrial processes. Some of these sources could supply decarbonized fuel such as hydrogen to the transportation, industrial and building sectors, and thus reduce emissions from those distributed sources.
CCS involves the use of technology, first to collect and concentrate the CO2 produced in industrial and energyrelated sources, transport it to a suitable storage location, and then store it away from the atmosphere for a long period of time. CCS would thus allow fossil fuels to be used with low emissions of greenhouse gases. Application of CCS to biomass energy sources could result in the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere (often referred to as ‘negative emissions’) by capturing and storing the atmospheric CO2 taken up by the biomass, provided the biomass is not harvested at an unsustainable rate.
CCS involves the use of technology, first to collect and concentrate the CO2 produced in industrial and energyrelated sources, transport it to a suitable storage location, and then store it away from the atmosphere for a long period of time. CCS would thus allow fossil fuels to be used with low emissions of greenhouse gases. Application of CCS to biomass energy sources could result in the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere (often referred to as ‘negative emissions’) by capturing and storing the atmospheric CO2 taken up by the biomass, provided the biomass is not harvested at an unsustainable rate.