Professor Andrew Palmer, Dr Benjamin K Sovacool and Professor Rajasekhar Bala were invited to give a presentation on global warming. Each presenter bought fore their different perspective on issues to tackle global warming, and their views on global warming.
Professor Andrew Palmer is a fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Chartered Engineer. He discuss about the seriousness of carbon emission and the need to reduce it to 500 parts per million, by using Carbon Capture and Storage technology. Carbon Capture and Storage technology captures carbon dioxide and stores them in liquid form in "sausage" membrane in the depths of the sea. He argues that this technology is cheaper compared to conventional ways to reduce carbon emission and to stabilize carbon emission at 500 parts per million. Conventional ways includes the usage of solar power, wind power, biomass fuel, fuel cell, which requires more cost to implement compared to Carbon Capture and Storage technology. With 1400million of the world's population surviving on less than $1.80 per day, the dire poverty situation in third world countries and an average spending of $3.3million on a country's defence, governments are unwilling to spend on the cause of global warming. Therefore, Professor Andrew Palmer states that Geo-engineering would be the solution against global warming.
Dr Benjamin K. Sovacool has worked as a researcher, professor, and consultant on issues pertaining to energy policy, the environment, and science and technology policy. He discusses from the science and technology studies(STS) to address energy problems. In his speech, he sees technology as nature and uses two examples of renewable power and electric vehicle to explain that the failure of a technology often has nothing to do with the technology but with social, cultural, political and economic challenges. For a technology to succeed, it needs to have the support from its system it was build for, this comprises of security, economic, political, and social factors.
Professor Rajasekhar Bala is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Head in the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, NUS. He states the troubling facts of global warming, the difficulties in dealing with global warming and discusses the conventional ways from an individual to government level in dealing with global warming. Overall, I feel that the government plays the major part in the fight against global warming, as they are capable of regulating and implementing policy on a large scale, example, carbon taxes, carbon dioxide cap for industries.
In conclusion these three presentation has brought valuable knowledge bout the reality of global warming from three different perspectives. There is an urgent need to fight global warming, and changes have to be implemented now to prevent future catastrophic.
Professor Andrew Palmer is a fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Chartered Engineer. He discuss about the seriousness of carbon emission and the need to reduce it to 500 parts per million, by using Carbon Capture and Storage technology. Carbon Capture and Storage technology captures carbon dioxide and stores them in liquid form in "sausage" membrane in the depths of the sea. He argues that this technology is cheaper compared to conventional ways to reduce carbon emission and to stabilize carbon emission at 500 parts per million. Conventional ways includes the usage of solar power, wind power, biomass fuel, fuel cell, which requires more cost to implement compared to Carbon Capture and Storage technology. With 1400million of the world's population surviving on less than $1.80 per day, the dire poverty situation in third world countries and an average spending of $3.3million on a country's defence, governments are unwilling to spend on the cause of global warming. Therefore, Professor Andrew Palmer states that Geo-engineering would be the solution against global warming.
Dr Benjamin K. Sovacool has worked as a researcher, professor, and consultant on issues pertaining to energy policy, the environment, and science and technology policy. He discusses from the science and technology studies(STS) to address energy problems. In his speech, he sees technology as nature and uses two examples of renewable power and electric vehicle to explain that the failure of a technology often has nothing to do with the technology but with social, cultural, political and economic challenges. For a technology to succeed, it needs to have the support from its system it was build for, this comprises of security, economic, political, and social factors.
Professor Rajasekhar Bala is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Head in the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, NUS. He states the troubling facts of global warming, the difficulties in dealing with global warming and discusses the conventional ways from an individual to government level in dealing with global warming. Overall, I feel that the government plays the major part in the fight against global warming, as they are capable of regulating and implementing policy on a large scale, example, carbon taxes, carbon dioxide cap for industries.
In conclusion these three presentation has brought valuable knowledge bout the reality of global warming from three different perspectives. There is an urgent need to fight global warming, and changes have to be implemented now to prevent future catastrophic.
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