CAPTURE CARBON NOW. Meaningful Amelioration of Climate Change

Partnership Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Club of Rome and COR Associations in Western Hemisphere: USA Club of Rome, Canadian Association for Club of Rome, Mexican Association Club of Rome, Brazilian Association.

CAPTURE CARBON NOW. Meaningful Amelioration of Climate Change.

Workshop Leaders, Anitra Thorhaug, Ph.D., President USA Club of Rome, Sheila Murray, Past President Canadian COR, Graeme Berlyn, Yale Forestry &Environmental Studies, Gerardo Gil-Valdevia, COR Board, and President Mexican Association,

CAPTURE CARBON NOW.DO YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO AMELIORATECLIMATE CHANGE?We discuss immediately available solutions for capturing carbon naturally.Nature kept a balance for billions of years. Since the industrial evolutionand invention of motorized vehicles, the carbon balance in the atompsohere and oceans are changed due tothe present excess of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere and partitioned into the sea which we now understand creates a series of side-effects. The critical solution is to store the excesscarboninto soils and into sediments.

Natural living ecosystems carbon capture to lower Global Temperatures,permanently sequestering carbon into soils and sediments. The by-products to these solutions are very positive:improve ecosystems,create more biodiversity,create more fisheries, create more employment, and help water and soil sustainabilityand shoreline stabilization. In the past few decades it becomes clear that the global wetlands including marshes, mangroves and seagrass as well as tropical forests are the pinnacle of carbon sequestering plants. Put into a International Future’s newly modified model by Barry Hughes, working scientists will examine from each habitat’s perspective what is occurring and what can occur to sequester far more carbon.

Yale University. Marsh Hall Rotunda. 360 Prospect St. New Haven Ct. Friday April 27 1:00 to 5:30 pm

Program:

Welcomes:

Thorhaug, Anitra Club of Rome models, and their Climate Change implications.

Berlyn, Graeme P . This short history of Marsh Hall

Sheila Murray . Introduction to Western Hemisphere working group.

Speakers:

Hughes, Barry. Scenarios for Climate change future: MODEL BUILDING with “International Futures Model “.

Anisfeld, Simon. The Carbon of North American Atlantic Marshes.Future potential restorations for carbon.

Ashton, Mark. The Future of Restoration of Asian Forests . Sri Lanka, China, India

Raymond, Peter. Yale University. National Academy of Sciences. The fate of riverine carbon in North American estuaries and Riverine carbon role in Blue Carbon stocks.

Poulos, Helen, Thorhaug, Anitra ,Berlyn , Graeme, Lopez-Portillo, Jorge.Seagrass stocks in Gulf of Mexico and their potential for Carbon sequestration.

Thorhaug, Poulos, Berlyn Lopez-Portillo . Blue carbon stocks in the Gulf of Mexico : Total marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses stocks and potentials for carbon sequestration.

Discussions of How to sequester maximum carbon rapidly throughout tropical forests and coastlines.

Rsvp . Marilyn Mosley Gordanier()

Biographies of Speakers.

James Hansen Columbia University. The need for biological absorption of excess atmospheric carbon for temperature control.

Barry Hughes .DirectorPardee Center for international Futures, University of Denver.Member Club of Rome.From his new modeling book. Chapter on Climate Change.Use of Predictive models for carbon relations per region.

Claude Martins, Chancellor International University, Geneva, Switzerland.Member Club of Rome. Where and why forests can be restored for sequestering atmospheric Carbon, stabilizing soil and ground water, and creating habitat. IPCC flaws .true solutions in conserving and restoring carbon in tropical forests in Asia, Africa Western hemisphere.

Simon Anisfeld, Yale University , Forestry and Environmental Studies. , Marsh carbon storage relations on North American Atlantic Coast and possibilities to store marsh carbon.

Peter Raymond. Yale University Forestry and Environmental Studies. How rivers transport soil and forest carbon into the interfaces of estuaries and seas.

Anitra Thorhaug, Yale University Forestry and Environmental Studies. Member Club of Rome. Realities of bolstering carbon in a global carbon hotspots. The Blue carbon in estuaries: mangroves, marshes, and seagrasses.

Discussion leaders, Thorhaug, Murray, Gil-Valdivia, Berlyn.

Discussion and interaction section:

General plan to move forward with Capture Carbon NOW as COR.

Carbon dioxide burned by fossil fuels creates emissions in air, which enters oceans, lakes and rivers. Plants absorb carbon dioxide but only before the industrial revolution were they in balance in carbon capture and absorption. When power plants, vehicles and fossil fuel burning have over powered plants’ abilities, at the same time plants’ were being simultaneously obliterated by powerful technologies of deforestation and filling of shorelines. We have within the last half century invented a wide variety of restoration techniques for plant systems. Hansen and others have calculated that planting forests can avoid the tipping point of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Bluecarbon and peat and other carbon-rich soils hold keys to reversing losses and technologies have been created to rapidly reverse losses in specific places. The political will is missing. Can Club of Rome along with other individuals work as a catalyst to demonstrate Biological carbon capture solutions rapidly and well? Can we act as a carbon capture central focus point for activities around the world? Can we be a megaphone for tried and true solutions for carbon capture? Roles in this new process to move forward with scrubbing the air are important and in need of catalytic groups to lead .

These concepts are a part of the solution along with minimizing usage of fossil fuels, switching to non-fossil energy sources, and capture of excess carbon dioxide at the source. These solutions are within the means and wanting a large comprehensive movement of citizens to carry them out.