Climate Change & Energy Impacts
9/5/2013 – Video of AEE webinar presentation by Eric Woodward PhD entitled “Game Changing Climate Data & Energy Impacts”.
Key Issues include ;
- Climate change is real and urgent
- Climate change has a direct connection to CO2 levels
- CO2 levels are increasing dramatically
- CO2 levels have had dramatic swings over the past 800,000 years
- BUT… not near today’s level (> 400ppm)
- Increasing CO2 is also acidifying the ocean
- Environmental and Societal Impacts are occurring now
- Solar PV Reaching Grid Parity Nationally by 2020
- … this is without including incentives or pricing Externalities
- Grid Impacts of this Major Shift Need to be Addressed
- Major Shift Can be an Opportunity