Green Ways to Move the Mail: "Can We Avert Climate Catastrophe?" - YouTube SmithsonianNPM

Green Ways to Move the Mail: A challenge for the New Century Thursday, March 20, 2008 At the National Postal Museum "Can we reverse the trend of increasing atmospheric CO2 and avert climate catastrophe?" presented by Dr. Bert Drake, Senior Scientist Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Dr. Bert G. Drake has been a plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Institution since 1970. Dr. Drake has been involved with many different research projects, but most notable would be his 20 year study of the effects of elevated CO2 on a Chesapeake Bay wetland now the longest running experiment of its type ever undertaken. Dr. Drake has given testimony on the effects of rising atmospheric CO2 before the Senate Committee on the Environment. He was as a member of site review teams for NASA, DOE, USDA, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. A popular lecturer, he is committed to public education about how environmental science at the Smithsonian Institution is helping to understand human impacts on the natural ecosystems on which our way of life depends. He is especially committed to making the public aware of the profound changes in terrestrial ecosystems occurring as a consequence of our consumption of fossil fuels and he often speaks on this topic at schools and civic organizations. The talk he will give will focus on the approaches to replacing carbon based energy with alternative energy sources for transportation. The presentation will illustrate the magnitude of the problem of finding fuels to reduce the staggering amounts of CO2 we are currently injecting into the atmosphere.

Green Ways to Move the Mail: "Can We Avert Climate Catastrophe?" - YouTube
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