"Focus the Nation will stream a free, live, interactive webcast called The 2% SOLUTION. Join Stanford University climate scientist, Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins and green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders, for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences can weigh in with cell phone voting. Our goal is 10,000 screenings—and a change in the course of history. "
"To hold global warming to the low end of 3-4 degrees F will require cuts in global warming pollution in the developed countries by more than 80% below current levels by 2050. Put another way, we need to cut roughly 2% of current emission levels a year for the next forty years. The webcast will revolve around the question: can we as a nation get on to this path, and cut global warming pollution 2% a year for the next decade? If so, what would it take?"
The 2% Solution webcast will feature brief discussions of:
- The expected range of warming: 3-10 degrees F.
- The possibility of initiating a continental ice sheet collapse, and how long it would take for sea level to rise.
- The costs of controlling global warming pollution in the near term.
- The potential for the creation of “Green Jobs” through energy efficiency programs that weatherize and solarize buildings.
- The idea of a “cap and auction” system, including thoughts on what to do with revenue generated from the auction. (Audiences will be asked to weigh in with a cell phone vote on what they would do with $100 billion!)
- The Warner Lieberman bill now in Congress as an example of cap & auction.
- How to address emissions from the developing world: China and India.
- Campus based initiatives to cut global warming pollution.
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