{"id":991,"date":"2014-10-26T19:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/COP20-2014\/?p=991"},"modified":"2014-10-26T19:14:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:14:02","slug":"dc-trip-a-wide-array-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/COP20-2014\/2014\/10\/26\/dc-trip-a-wide-array-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Trip – A Wide Array of Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week the members of Dickinson’s Climate Change Mosaic was lucky enough to engage in valuable discussions with a wide range of climate change related actors, including:\u00a0Tom Lovejoy, Bill Breed, John Holdren, Jacob Scherr, Mike MacCraken, Mike MacCracken, Dallas Butraw and many other highly regarded individuals. Although these private, public and governmental actors\u00a0had careers\u00a0focused in differentiated climate-related fields, their talks involved a common expected theme. \u00a0This theme was the how to approach future issues surrounding with climate change and it’s governance.<\/div>\n
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In which, Lovejoy’s solution was to\u00a0restore vegetation, allowing for carbon sequestration through natural processes. Lovejoy explained\u00a0that if restoration is implemented at a large scale, global temperatures could decrease by 0.6 degrees. \u00a0One of his recommended mechanism was for everyone to plant a tree, allowing for carbon sequestration. \u00a0Whereas\u00a0Daniel Reifsnyder’s solutions consisted of closing the divide between developed and developing countries in the Paris’s agreement by requiring global participation with the right commitments. \u00a0Jacob Sherr highlighted the importance of addressing the climate change crisis with “new architecture”. The “new architecture” consisted of having a mixed-track approach towards climate change governance due the need to engage multiple players around the globe. \u00a0 MacCraken focused on the benefits from completely cutting out long-term\u00a0greenhouse gases, such as methane and black carbon. \u00a0These gases stay in the atmosphere longer than CO2 and IPCC currently does not deal with the effects from black carbon.\u00a0Keya Chatterjee encouraged the switch to solar energy for it\u00a0was cheaper than diesel (in some areas of the world). \u00a0She also discussed the need to engage the public through music and other sources of media to create global involvement. Overall, each speaker had influential ideas and thoughts on the varying issues surrounding climate change. It was evident that in order to approach climate change, actors from various fields need to come together to tackle the differentiating issues.<\/div>\n
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Last week the members of Dickinson’s Climate Change Mosaic was lucky enough to engage in valuable discussions with a wide range of climate change related actors, including:\u00a0Tom Lovejoy, Bill Breed, John Holdren, Jacob Scherr, Mike MacCraken, Mike MacCracken, Dallas Butraw and many other highly regarded individuals. Although these private, public and governmental actors\u00a0had careers\u00a0focused in … <\/p>\n

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