Climate change?

On the 30th of January 09, i'm honoured to have 3 very interesting lecturers to give all the students speeches on climate change. Each of them have their respective ways and stands on what we can do from our part to save our environment.

Dr Andrew Palmer of Centre for Offshore Research and Engineering is the first of the 3 lecturers to give us a speech and get the ball rolling. He told us about the increase of carbon dioxide as compared to before. The increase of carbon dioxide had caused global warming around the world. Through the studies that he had done, Dr Andrew Palmer gives us examples on how we can reduce the carbon dioxide level, example using natural gases and resources (Solar or Wind energy) and storing carbon dioxide under the sea.

Next, Mr. Savacool give us a speech on Using STS to Address Energy Problems. Mr Savacool uses case studies to present to us the topic. I personally find that the method he uses to present more interesting as we can easily relate the problem and find a solution to it. He explains to us about the issue between USA and Kyoto Protocol and reasons behind why USA did not sign the Protocol in the end.

Lastly A/P Bala present his speech to us. As most of the stuffs he presented had been overlapped by the previous 2 lecturers, in the end he can give us a brief and general information on the causes of global warming and what global warming can lead to.

From the talk, i do learn more about Global Warming. But most information that the lecturers present have been talk about or can be read up in the book. The talk is too lengthy and no breaks in between the talk do make it worse. We can actually have a break of 15 minutes after each lectures.