Global Warming.ppt

Global Warming and the Coming Peaks in Oil, Gas and Coal Production Carbon Mitigation Scenarios for the Next 100 Years Bruce Hodge This talk presents plausible scenarios for the depletion of the remainder of our carbon-based energy sources over the next 250 years. It introduces the concept of stabilization wedges, which can be used to quantify the effects of mitigation strategies for global warming. It then looks at the effects of applying different quantities of wedges over a hundred-year period and models the impact of various implementation delay times. It also examines per capita impacts. The modeling results point to a period of falling energy services per capita after a peak in about 25 years if we seriously begin efforts to mitigate carbon emissions in order to prevent climate destabilization.