1. Climate Justice Workshop
September 17, 2019
Heather Price
Chemistry
North Seattle College

2. For millions of years CO2 has not gone
above this red line Now we are up here.
Today: 412 ppm CO2

4. 18 of the top 20 hottest years ever recorded
occurred between 2000 and 2018
Green line is 1.0C above 1880
2018

5. Limiting warming to under 2C requires rapid transformations in every economic sector: buildings, industry, transport, energy, agriculture and forestry.

7. How we are solving the climate crisis. (and helping ourselves)
1900
1913
New technology is adopted even faster today than in the past. It took 100 years from the introduction of the telephone to 95% adoption. The cellphone took only 10 years from introduction to 95% adoption. We can and do make changes rapidly when we want to.
Easter Morning in New York City, 5th Avenue

8. Summary of Climate Justice Lessons
The Power of Educating Women, ELI LEAP: Exploring the Issues
The Gallery of Solutions to Climate Change, ENGL& 235: Technical Writing
Indigenous Peoples’ Land Management, ENGL& 101: English Composition
Climate Refugees and Social Resistance, ENGL& 246: American Literature III
Climate Change and Poetry, ENGL 247: Writing Poetry I
Climate Change Virtual Reality, Fall 2018 Virtual Reality Simulation Sessions, BC XR Lab Three Essays on Drawdown Solutions, ENGL& 101
Climate Change and 4-Field Anthropology, ANTH& 100: Survey of Anthropology
Social Inequities of Climate Change, CJ& 101: Introduction to Criminal Justice
Language Institute Climate Watchdogging, POLS& 202: American Government
Living Building Challenge, INDES 440, 24 students, Interior Design Climate Change Air Quality Index Database, CS 331: Database Systems
The Calculus of LED Bulbs and Solar Panels, MATH& 152: Calculus II
Walkable Cities & Drawdown Math Problems, MATH& 107 and MATH& 078
Composition, 36 students, English Volume Changes in Mountainous & Non-Polar Glaciers, MATH& 148: Business Calculus
The Free Energy of Carbon Dioxide, CHEM& 163: General Chemistry III
]Language Institute Greenhouse Gas Simulation in a Bottle, CHEM& 121 and CHEM& 140
Mechanics of a Bicycle, PHYS& 121: General Engineering Physics
Designing a Sustainable Society, PHYS& 114: General Physics I
limate Change and the Spread of Disease Vectors, BIOL& 260: Microbiology,
Climate Change and the Human Body, BIOL& 241: Human Anatomy and Physiology
Carbon Sequestration by Trees, ENVS& 100: Survey of Environmental Science
English
Anthropology
Criminal Justice
Political Science
Computer Science
Mathematics
Chemistry
Physics
Biology
Env Science

9. NO TIME TO WASTE: THE IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING OF 1
NO TIME TO WASTE: THE IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5ºC AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WASHINGTON STATE

10. Resources:
Drawdown solutions:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports:
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe’s PBS series on climate change:
Dispelling climate myths:
Conversations between Climate Scientists:
NASA’s Climate Website:
University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group: