Contents
Climate Change - the need to Decarbonize Earth - Contents
1.0 The Climate Change error
1.1 Earth – our beautiful home
1.2 Climate Change and CO2 concentration
1.3 The Earth’s Atmospheric CO2 ppm concentration
1.5 The CO2 increase caused by humans
1.7 Global growth in CO2 emissions
1.8 Fossil Fuel product use percentage contributions
1.9 Future potential Fossil Fuel product emissions
1.10 Trends in countries emitting CO2
1.11 Global energy needs
1.12 More people consume more energy
1.13 Five IPCC scenarios
1.14 Humans will only survive ONE scenario
1.15 Measured warming of Earth
1.16 Earth's CO2 sinks
1.17 All major causes of Earth warming
1.18 The only path forward is SSP1-1.9
2.0 Earth’s response to a rapidly rising CO2 impulse spike
2.1 Linear Time-Invariant systems
2.2 Earth’s apparent LTI Climate control system
2.3 Climate control may not be entirely LTI
2.4 Semi-linear and non-linear Climate control zones
2.5 Every day of CO2 emissions matter
2.6 CO2 emissions last 500 years
2.7 CO2 emissions add up every year
3.0 Earth's semi-linear Climate Changes are Code Red
3.1 Earth timescales
3.2 Average Earth Temperatures are rising
3.3 Water cycles
3.4 Bushfires and polar ice melting
3.8 Baked in warming
3.10 Feedback loops are starting
4.0 Earth is in a Climate Emergency
4.1 We must stay under 2 degrees
4.2 The IPCC directions are clear
4.4 Zero Emissions by 2050 is too late
4.5 Danger of Death
5.0 Conclusion - Climate Change action
Units of Measure and Definitions