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How long has fire played a role on planet Earth?

How do scientists monitor / model the carbon cycle today?

What is the proportion of global carbon emissions from forest fires?

Why should you care about Carbon?

What do you know about Global Warming?

Why do scientists keep saying that global warming is caused by human actions?

What is a carbon foot-print?

What is being done in other countries?

How much of your food / transporation is dependent upon carbon-based energy (i.e. fossil fuels?)

October 6th, 2014

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has repeatedly held investigations of scientists involved in climate change research.

CLIMATEGATE!

Food = 85%

Transportation = 98%

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/06/24/house-votes-to-direct-the-pentagon-to-disregard-climate-change-assessments/

Kevin Carter

Sudan 1993

Pulitzer Prize

*http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/24/ap/business/main20111268.shtml*

“Humans have become less susceptible to the effects of heat due to a combination of adaptations, particularly air conditioning. The availability of air conditioning is expected to continue to increase.” – US Chamber of Commerce, 2009.

Soon to be chair of the US Senate's

Environment and Public Works Committee!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/enhancing_climate_resilience_of_americas_natural_resources.pdf

Claimed that humans evolved from lesser species (that also evolved into apes)

Motivated Reasoning

Confirmation Bias

IPCC

Believed that the Earth revolved around the Sun

Believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe

Is "Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)" a plot for scientists to enrich themselves?

Just how big is the global energy economy?

Argued that Darwin's 'Theory' should not be taught in schools over the Bible

“...just one more liberal conspiracy! ...keep an eye on those tricky scientist thousandaires,”

-- Jon Stewart 1/6/2014

...was imprisoned by house arrest until his death

~$5,000,000,000,000.00 / year

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle

Clarence S. Darrow

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/r8c9ac/war-on-carbon

William Jennings Bryan

...and how big is the science denial business?

Industry's losing track record:

Clean Water Act

Leaded Gasoline

*http://youtu.be/S_DQUAuNUvw*

NSF budget: ~$7,286,000,000.00

Cuyahoga River, 1952

Cigarettes & Cancer

Acid Rain

Geoscience: ~$1,700,000,000.00

Fun Facts:

3-time candidate for President as a liberal Democrat.

A supporter of popular democracy, an enemy of gold, banks and railroads, a leader of the silverite movement in the 1890s, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, and was an opponent of Darwinism on religious grounds.

0.034%

Mann et al. 1999

What is a carbon credit?

http://www.ecofys.com/files/files/world-bank-ecofys-2014-state-trends-carbon-pricing.pdf

http://vimeo.com/4166007

How much CO2 is released when you burn 1000kg of wood?

  • Fuel moisture = 10%
  • Wood is ~51.2% Carbon (Ponderosa Pine)
  • Oxygen =16 g-mol^-1
  • Carbon=14 g-mol^-1

Answer 1: 1000kg *.9*.512*(46/14) = 1,514 kg

Answer 2: 4kg*0.87*(46/14) = 11.43 kg!

How much carbon is released in a typical surface fire? A crown fire?

contact me:

Tyson Swetnam

tswetnam@email.arizona.edu

How much CO2 is released when you burn a gallon (4kg) of gasoline (87% C)?

North and Hurteau 2011

Hurteau et al. 2008

http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/ghg/ghg5-online.html

Credit:Wikipedia, Assoc. Press

Forests store 86% of the planet's terrestrial above-ground carbon and 73% of the planet's soil carbon.

http://www.tececo.com/sustainability.carbon_cycles_sinks.php

Photosynthesis!

So what's the big deal about burning fossil carbon anyway, and where does / did it come from?

Credit: SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

A.C. Scott et al. 2000

Scott & Glasspool 2006

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