Rebecca Lane
Period 2
April 3, 2017
Junior Position Paper
Formal Interview Transcripts
Rose, Veronica. Personal Interview. 29 March 2017.
Veronica Rose is an Australian Biochemist from the East coast. She has worked as an Environmental Consultant and Analyst in Australia and Asia for 20 years. She studies how humans have impacted the environment for different scientific institutions and governments.
Q1: Is global warming a problem today?
A: 11% of the population, some millions people are currently vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, heat waves, eco destruction, extreme weather events and sea-level rise. As an example, from my own part of the world, the island of Kiribati in the Pacific has been inundated by rises …show more content…
Promoting investment and research in community-based sustainability solutions
2. Supporting communities confronting the impacts of climate change & building climate solutions for an economy free of fossil fuels
Q5: There are other sources that emit greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Why are humans such a problem when we are not responsible for all of it, shouldn’t we just stop the other sources?
A: Every peer reviewed study of climate change, using a wide range of independent methods, provide multiple lines of evidence that humans are the dominant cause of global warming over the past century, and especially over the past 50 to 65 years by a massive margin. Every study that I have looked at concluded that over the most recent 100-150 year period examined, humans are responsible for at least 50% of the observed warming, and most estimates put the human contribution between 75 and 90%.
Q6: How much will the average temperature rise and why is it a …show more content…
Climate Science is a frontier Science that is fed into by Scientists from many different fields.
Q8: What have you done in your line of work with soil carbon sequestration?
A: Nothing yet Rebecca, soil carbon sequestration is undergoing long term analysis some of the trials are 35 years long.
Q9: How does being a Biochemist deal with global warming?
A: At the moment, Biochemists are sitting on the fringes of Climate Science, and this is especially true of myself as I tend at this time to be dealing with the more immediate impacts of man’s neglect of his own habitat . At the moment most Biochemists are studying the modelling of both the short and long term climate predictions and calculating their biological and chemical impact locally and globally.
Q10: In your studies have you found any other ways humans have affected the environment besides global warming?
A: Yes in many ways, depletion of natural resources, depletion of fresh water supplies, increased pollution, chemical residues, destruction of habitat…
Period 2
April 3, 2017
Junior Position Paper
Formal Interview Transcripts
Rose, Veronica. Personal Interview. 29 March 2017.
Veronica Rose is an Australian Biochemist from the East coast. She has worked as an Environmental Consultant and Analyst in Australia and Asia for 20 years. She studies how humans have impacted the environment for different scientific institutions and governments.
Q1: Is global warming a problem today?
A: 11% of the population, some millions people are currently vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, heat waves, eco destruction, extreme weather events and sea-level rise. As an example, from my own part of the world, the island of Kiribati in the Pacific has been inundated by rises …show more content…
Promoting investment and research in community-based sustainability solutions
2. Supporting communities confronting the impacts of climate change & building climate solutions for an economy free of fossil fuels
Q5: There are other sources that emit greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Why are humans such a problem when we are not responsible for all of it, shouldn’t we just stop the other sources?
A: Every peer reviewed study of climate change, using a wide range of independent methods, provide multiple lines of evidence that humans are the dominant cause of global warming over the past century, and especially over the past 50 to 65 years by a massive margin. Every study that I have looked at concluded that over the most recent 100-150 year period examined, humans are responsible for at least 50% of the observed warming, and most estimates put the human contribution between 75 and 90%.
Q6: How much will the average temperature rise and why is it a …show more content…
Climate Science is a frontier Science that is fed into by Scientists from many different fields.
Q8: What have you done in your line of work with soil carbon sequestration?
A: Nothing yet Rebecca, soil carbon sequestration is undergoing long term analysis some of the trials are 35 years long.
Q9: How does being a Biochemist deal with global warming?
A: At the moment, Biochemists are sitting on the fringes of Climate Science, and this is especially true of myself as I tend at this time to be dealing with the more immediate impacts of man’s neglect of his own habitat . At the moment most Biochemists are studying the modelling of both the short and long term climate predictions and calculating their biological and chemical impact locally and globally.
Q10: In your studies have you found any other ways humans have affected the environment besides global warming?
A: Yes in many ways, depletion of natural resources, depletion of fresh water supplies, increased pollution, chemical residues, destruction of habitat…