Global warming: What should we do to stop or slow?
Creators
- 1. Guelhane Military Medical Academy and Faculty, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ankara (Turkey)
Description
Earth is warming much faster than had been predicted. 2005 was the warmest year on record, surpassing 1998. The multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) report recently concluded that in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia, average temperatures have increased 3 to 4 degrees Celsius in the past 50 years. Rising temperatures have a dramatic impact on Arctic ice. Since 1978 Arctic sea ice area has shrunk by some 9 percent per decade, and thinned as well. There are three specific events especially worrisome and potentially imminent, although the time frames are a matter of dispute: dramatic sea level rise by the end of the century that would take tens of thousand years to reverse; widespread coral bleaching that could be damage the world's fisheries within three decades; and, within 200 years, a shutdown of the ocean current that moderates temperatures in northern Europe. Global warming is caused by human activities such as burning nature's vast store of coal, oil and nature gas which releases billions of tones carbon dioxide (CO2) every year. If current trends continue, we will raise atmospheric CO2 concentrations to double pre-industrial levels during this century. That will probably be enough to raise global temperatures by around 2 degree C to 5 degree C. Even if humans stop burning oil and coal tomorrow we have already spewed enough greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to cause temperatures to warm and sea levels to rise for at least another century. So what should we do? We can not continue drawing energy from fossil fuels and there is no chance that the renewable, wind, tide, and water power can provide enough energy and in time. Nuclear energy is the only one immediately available source does not cause global warming. In this presentation consequences and risks of global warming, as well as nuclear power comparisons will be discussed comprehensively
Files
38105337.pdf
Files
(55.6 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:e98ef9f37b44dd7b9dc640ce9973e0c3
|
55.6 kB | Preview Download |
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Book of abstracts
- Imprint Pagination
- 126 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 7
- Report number
- INIS-TR--0109
Conference
- Title
- INSINUME 2006 International Symposium In-situ nuclear metrology as a tool for radioecology
- Dates
- 6-8 Sep 2006
- Place
- Kusadasi (Turkey)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Turkey
- Country of Input or Organization
- Turkey
- INIS RN
- 38105337
- Subject category
- S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BURNERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; COAL; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER; OILS
- Descriptors DEC
- CARBON COMPOUNDS; CARBON OXIDES; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CHALCOGENIDES; CLIMATIC CHANGE; ENERGY; ENERGY SOURCES; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; MATERIALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POWER