Summary on the Friday’s lecture

Summary on the Friday’s lecture
By Song yuheng
On the Friday’s lecture the two speakers, Dr. Shie-Yui Liong and Dr. Benjamin. K Sovacool, gave us their presentation on climate change.
The first lecturer, Dr Liong, defined climate as an average of weather over a long time. Then he emphasized that despite a little greenhouse gas was necessary too much greenhouse gas was bad. He also illustrated some kinds of greenhouse gas and showed that the climate was becoming warmer and warmer. After that he introduced IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and some of the work they have done. At last he showed us that we could downscale the output of GCMs to match the hydrology needs.
The second lecturer, Dr. Sovacool focused on the facts of the condition of climate change and the solution of climate change in terms of both institutions and individuals. He illustrated that most of greenhouse gas was from fossil fuels and other sources and most of emission due to energy supply and use. He also showed the top ten emission countries among which China and the US ranked at the first and second place. Then he showed the institutional actions of climate stabilization in terms of sector, energy supply, transport, building, industry, agriculture, forests and waste management. In addition he laid out some individual actions of climate stabilization in terms of electricity, food, homes and technology. Finally he gave us some advises on what we ourselves could do to make a difference on climate change.