environmental reporting and energy
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- 1. Topic 7:Environmental reporting
2. Summary of lecture
- The big environmental stories.
- Land and wildlife.
- Water:Quality, scarcity, and ecosystems.
- Toxic pollution
- Climate
- Sources of information and traps to avoid.
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- Land and biodiversity http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=22585
4. Stories
- Extinction of species
- Invasive species
- Agriculture
- Logging
- Draining of wetlands
5. Sources of information
- International advocacy organizations
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- Worldwide Fund for Nature
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- Friends of the Earth
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- World Resources Institute
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- Greenpeace
- Logging companies, farmers, developers
- Government agencies, international organizations
- Independent scientists
6. 2. Water 7.
- Drinking water quality. Treatment technologies, standards (lead, arsenic, microbes), rivers and wells.
- Water scarcity.Draining rivers.Dams.Big issue in Ukraine?
- Health of streams, wetlands, and oceans.Sewage treatment, agriculture.Black Sea success story:http://www.oceanactions.com/?page_id=129
- Fisheries.National and international efforts.
Water stories 8. 3. Toxic pollution
- Risk and uncertainty.How dangerous is this?
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- Example:Fine particulates risk assesssment:http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=216546
- Sources of information.
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- US Environmental Protection Agency ( www.epa.gov/risk/ ).
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- European Chemicals Agency (http://echa.europa.eu/).
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- Advocacy groups (on all sides)
- Psychology of risk:Control, choice, uncertainty.
9. 4. Climate 10. Things to remember
- The science is very complicated, but there s consensus on the main ideas.
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- Models, sources and sinks, feedbacks
- Solutions are hard
11. The wedge game http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/game.php 12. Discussion? 13. Topic 8:Energy
- Is this really science reporting?
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- Impacts of energy use
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- Technologies and choices
14. The long view 15. The big picture 16. Stories by energy source
- Coal
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- Deadly and dirty.
- Gas
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- Cleaner, but full of problems.
- Oil
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- The global addiction.
- Nuclear
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- Safe? Waste?
17. Technical solutions?
- Biofuels - wood and crops
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- Fuel versus food and nature
- Solar and wind
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- Affordable? Reliable?
- Geothermal
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- Unproven
18. Conservation and efficiency
- The cheapest and cleanest energy source.
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- Power stations (average 30 percent conversion; 45 percent possible.
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- Transmission losses (extremely high in Ukraine)
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- Buildings -- standards, incentives.
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- Transportation?
19. Prices and institutions
- Do you pay for heat?
- Hot water?
- Gas (how much?)
- Why not?
20. Traps to avoid
- Technology that promises too much
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- Solar
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- Biofuels
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- Nuclear
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- Hydrogen
- Dont forget politics
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