{"id":273,"date":"2016-07-09T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T17:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/?p=273"},"modified":"2016-09-15T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:24:09","slug":"tpedersen-july132016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/2016\/07\/09\/tpedersen-july132016\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar by Tom Pedersen on July 13, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Responding to the Climate Change Challenge\u00a0 is a Social Imperative and an Economic Opportunity<\/strong><br \/>\nThomas Pedersen, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, July 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<br \/>\nFossil fuel combustion and associated release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is warming Earth. The warming is particularly profound in high northern latitudes but its impacts are global, ranging broadly from insults to human health to distortions of world food prices to an increasing frequency of deluges and floods. Moreover, carbon dioxide emissions are acidifying the sea, with serious pending consequences for marine life including coral reefs. We have a small window of opportunity to slow such changes; a first step must be to remove coal from our energy diet. The good news is that acting now\u2013seizing the challenge of the next industrial revolution\u2013\u2013will generate new economic activity and a healthier living environment. So, why aren\u2019t we vigorously tackling that challenge? The answer is clear: a lack of political will coupled with societal apathy\u2013\u2013a potent recipe for inaction\u2013\u2013is holding us back.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time we changed that recipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the Climate Change Challenge\u00a0 is a Social Imperative and an Economic Opportunity Thomas Pedersen, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Abstract: Fossil fuel combustion and associated release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is warming Earth. The warming is particularly profound in high northern latitudes but its impacts are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/2016\/07\/09\/tpedersen-july132016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seminar by Tom Pedersen on July 13, 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}