NEW WAY TO PICK WINNER
- Before debate: write down where you are on spectrum below
- After debate: write down where you are on spectrum below
- Did you move toward A or toward B?
NEW WAY TO DISCUSS AFTER DEBATE
- Write down ONE question for ONE team member--Kayla, Finn, Chris, George, Ben
- They'll read your questions and decide what to answer
GEOENGINEERING--MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION?
Mitigation--stop climate change -- "kill the wolf"
Adaptation--get used to climate change -- "build a brick house"
Two ways to mitigate/"kill the wolf"
Reduce greenhouse gases--burn fossil fuels less--transition to wind, solar, etc.
Prevent greenhouse gases from causing climate change
- High tech geoengineering--Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Solar Radiation Management (SRM)
- Natural geoengineering)--plant trees
DEBATE DISCUSSION
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MY QUESTIONS
- For Kaley (intro)--Remind us why planting trees is a type of geoengineering! It seems very different.
- For Finn and Ben (A) --Which of the two claims below were you making?
- BACK-UP: should work very hard on GHG reduction and research high-tech geoengineering as a back up in case it doesn't work (Paris agreement view)
- RELAX: we should relax reduction efforts quite a bit, and research high-tech geoengineering, which will be easier, cheaper, faster (Lomborg's view)
- For Chris (B) --Do you object to geoengineering because the specific proposals seem hopeless or also because there's something bad about the very idea?
- For George and Ben (B, A)--You both discuss whether geoengineering will just have regional benefits, which would be problematic. Won't most forms have global benefits -- just as greenhouse emissions cause global temperature rise?
CLASSMATE QUESIONS
- For Kaley (intro): How temporary of a fix are the four methods you covered? Days, months, years?
- For Finn (A): What is the most negative impact of geoengineering?
- For Ben (A): What would you suggest to mitigate potential negative side effects of geoengineering?
- For Chris (B): How long until geoengineering ruins the environment, if it continues at its current rate?
- For George (B): What do you think is the main problem, on a global scale, for geoengineering? Is it the cost, lack of testing...?
- Anyone: is there a middle ground between no and full investment in geoengeinering that would be effective on climate change?
- Anyone: How much area would the sulfur cover in the air regarding the sulfate aerosol cloud seeding?
- Anyone: What happens to the carbon in phytoplankton after the 100+ years