6. The most profound danger to world peace
in the coming years will stem … from the
legitimate demands of the world's
dispossessed ... the majority live a marginal
existence in equatorial climates. Global
warming … originating with the wealthy
few, will affect their fragile ecologies most.
Their situation will be desperate and
manifestly unjust.
100 Nobel Laureates Warn Our Planet
OSLO, Norway December 7, 2001
9. Borne in 1960?
Your Net GHG Emissions
Recent
GHG t/yr
GHG Sum
t/1960-2012
India 1.4 ~25
China 6 ~100
North America 25 ~800
Alberta 70 ~1500*
Developed world lead in GHG emission reductions
*Not the average Albertan
*Not average Kainai Resident
27. Enhanced Recovery of Oil and
Gas with Hydraulic Fracturing:
Environmental Concerns
James M. Byrne, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Geography
University of Lethbridge
28.
29. Industry
• Hydraulic fracturing
is a proven
technological
advancement which
allows natural gas
producers to safely
recover natural gas
from deep shale
formations
• Ground and surface
water contamination
• earthquake
generation
• Air pollution
emissions
• Leaking methane, a
potent greenhouse
gas.
Science
Methane leakage up to 9% of production!
33. IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF PLUG-IN HYBRID
VEHICLES ON ELECTRIC UTILITIES AND
REGIONAL U.S.POWER GRIDS
Michael Kintner-Meyer
Kevin Schneider
Robert Pratt
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
JOURNAL OF EUEC, Volume 1, 2007
35. Eliminates GHG emissions for 86%
of light cars and trucks
Health benefits of
pollution
reduction!
36. Mark Jacobson, Stanford University
• 3.8 million large wind
turbines
• 90,000 solar plants
• geothermal, tidal power
• rooftop photovoltaic
installations (Germany)
• Cost effective compared
to fossil fuels
37. Wind Speeds
Archer, C. L., and M. Z. Jacobson (2005),
Evaluation of global wind power,
J. Geophys. Res. 110 , D12110, doi:
0.1029/2004JD005462
38. Solar Energy
Lethbridge = Houston, Tx
PHOTOVOLTAIC RESOURCE MAPS FOR CANADA
Sophie Pelland, Daniel W. McKenney, Yves Poissant,
Robert Morris, Kevin Lawrence, Kathy Campbell and Pia
Papadopol, CANMET Energy Technology Centre-
Varennes, Natural Resources Canada, 1615 Lionel-Boulet
Blvd., Varennes, Québec, Canada, J3X 1S6
41. Summary
• Fossil fuels - declining use
• Climate and weather on steroids getting worse
• Solutions: cut GHG emissions
– Electric and hybrid automobiles
– Power grid conversion to renewables
• Alberta - renewable investments
– Wind, solar, biomass & biogas, heat exchange
– Geothermal – individual and community
• Kainai Reserve has big solar, wind potential
This session is primarily focused on the impacts of climate change on salmonid habitat. However, there are a number of other environmental disturbances that pose a threat to changing the thermal habitat of fresh water streams. Forest harvest etc all have some impact on watershed processes and therefore, pose a threat of altering stream temperatures. In order to understand how environmental change may alter the thermal habitat of fresh water streams, we need modelling studies.