First, I will show you the direct human causes of climate deregulation and their most visible consequences – loss of human life and great suffering. I will use my own global fossil future scenario to show you how burning fossil fuels will transform the Earth we know into a furnace. I will invoke the “1000 ton” rule in terms of human lives lost to climate change and make a case for both immediate geologic CO2 sequestration and switching to blue hydrogen and ammonia. At this point, I will urge you to be courageous and make a meaningful difference. My ‘prescription’ for the transition will slow down the rapid rate of energy consumption and buy us time to cut emissions. Second, I will revisit the Anthropocene and 140 years of global mean temperature records. I will introduce the Earth as a complex system of interlinked systems and the miracle of the stable albedo of our planet. I will then focus on the radiation equilibrium of the Sun-Earth system and how we are destabilizing it. I will show you that in all likelihood we will exceed 2oC in 2050 and even exceed 4oC by 2100, and urge you to think about future children’s fate unless we take action now. Finally, I will give a few translations from technocracy to ecology and debunk the two most popular arguments by climate warming denialists.
Tadeusz W. Patzek
Center Director, Professor