Posts Tagged ‘Change’
Global Warming Science – Climate Change Facts Statistics
3 Global warming science.
http://www.globalchange.com Ice core samples. Graphs of carbon dioxide and temperature. Future is about emotion. Scientific debate and controversy. Ice caps carbon dioxide bubbles trapped, carbon dioxide concentrations, tree ring climate estimates, hydrogen isotopes in ice, ice ages mapping and climate history, Future climate change and future carbon dioxide levels. Future peak of atmospheric levels of CO2. Stabilisation CO2 levels. Human activity impact on gobal warming and CO2 levels. Impact of global warming on government action, building regulations, energy conservation, activist pressures, business responses to global warming. Customers, consumers, shareholders pressure. Speed of change. Heads of State speeches, commitment to cut CO2 emissions and carbon footprint of buildings and real estate. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Identifying new opportunities in buildings control, environmental regulation. Keeping pace with change in real estate planning and corporate real estate demands. Impact on corporate real estate of mergers and acquisitions. How world getting faster, client demands growing faster. How clients behave illogically in longer term real estate planning. Buildings controls, heating and cooling, retrofitting high rise, office blocks and factories. Building regulations and government action. Longer term real estate planning. Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Architects and buildings design, living space, partitions, ventilation systems, balancing and rebalancing air conditioning. ARBS, Business management video by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Global warming impact from offices and commercial buildings, skyscrapers, tower blocks and corporate real estate. Energy efficiency and energy consumption of commercial buildings and office blocks. Balancing air conditioning systems with better building control systems (integrated temperature monitoring) can save over 30% of energy costs each year. Johnson Controls and other companies provide specialist technical advice on heat loss reduction and air conditioning management systems. Issues of ventilation, fresh air, “tight” buildings, carbon dioxide levels, heat exchangers and air ducting. Electricity use and power generation on buildings. Green roofs, open spaces, shade, natural light. Impact of global warming and CO2 reduction on building design, architecture, building regulations and government standards. Special tax relief and concessions, reductions in stamp duty for energy compliant 5* and 6* commercial properties. Activist campaigns to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon trading and offsets. Energy in construction and demolition as proportion of life-time energy use. Future of corporate real estate and corporate real estate management companies. Outsourcing buildings management.
Energy saving, corporate, real estate, property, cost, management, electricity, power, consumption, air conditioning, buildings controls, heat, cooling, light, air circulation, warming, carbon dioxide, gas emissions, reduction, green roofs
Duration : 0:3:39
Climate Change and Nuclear Power
Power Point on climate change and nuclear power. Subtopics of the presentation include: from Environmental Defense Fund, Global Warming by the numbers, 13 scary facts; Climate Change Facts; the Risks and Hidden Costs of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle; Taxpayers Finance the Nuclear Revival; Availability of Uranium – Impact of Mining; Known Recoverable Sources of Uranium- as with liquefied natural gas, some of these countries could pose possible future threats to the United States; Climate Change Impacts of Nuclear Fuel Cycle; Terrorism – Sabotage, Nuclear 911; GNEP, Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, and many, many others.
Duration : 0:58:12
The Alyona Show: China Reaping Benefits of Afghan War?
This episode of The Alyona Show features a discussion of China and Americas different approaches to Afghanistan. In an interview with Christina Larson from Foreign Policy Magazine, Alyona asks if China will reap the financial benefits of the region while the U.S. spends their money and soldiers lives on war. Then, what are the U.S. interests in natural gas? Why are they getting involved in negotiations for the Nabucco pipeline? Also, watch part 2 of Alyonas interview with military journalist David Axe, recently returned from Afghanistan. Then, is healthcare hysteria due to the coincidental release of reports on mammograms? One congressman, is trying to make November 25th, No Complaint Day. Will anyone join the ranks? Also, YouTube launches a new channel for Citizen Journalists. Alyona then interviews Dylan Avery, writer and director of Loose Change, a documentary on the events of 9/11. Then, Alyona asks the audience who the bigger idiot is after a mother calls the police on her 10 year old daughter, and the police use a taser on her.
Duration : 0:26:39