27 from noon until 1:30 pm.įollowing the presentation, a Q&A will focus on future research and funding opportunities. The panel is comprised of academic, community, and industry experts who plan to present research on how decisions regarding the adoption of solar power in different locations are made. Via the University of Iowa’ Office of the Vice President for Research.īy Eleanor Hildebrandt | October 26, 2021įive panelists are coming to the University of Iowa on Wednesday to discuss the need for expanded solar energy at an event titled “Decarb 2040.” This means that more of the CO2 will go into the atmosphere and temperatures will increase at an even higher rate.Ĭarbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, accounting for approximately ⅔ of climate change effects, mainly because of fossil fuel combustion and cement production. The Bulletin flagged concern that the ability of land ecosystems and oceans to act as “sinks” may become less effective in future. The other half is taken up by oceans and land ecosystems. Roughly half of the CO2 emitted by human activities today remains in the atmosphere. All of these extremes also have socioeconomic impacts. This also means more weather extremes like intense heat and rainfall, ice melt, sea-level rise and ocean acidification. Rising temperatures is not the only thing that these emissions will cause. CO2 has a long life, therefore the temperature level already observed will persist for several decades even if emissions are rapidly reduced to net zero. That trend has continued in 2021, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.Īs long as emissions continue, global temperature will continue to rise. Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record last year, with the annual rate of increase above the 2011-2020 average. including cabinetry, furniture, flooring, and interior finishes. 50 percent of the weight of wood is carbon. Keeping the trees in their initial form and not making it into mulch keeps carbon locked instead of the chemical goes back into the atmosphere. It’s available to anyone according to Aron Flickinger, a forestry program specialist at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Urban lumber is now available in Des Moines and Iowa City at Habitat for Humanity stores. Urban lumber is wood cut from trees that were grown within city limits that are not turned into mulch. Now, some trees have become urban lumber.
Still, clean up of downed trees lasted months. The decision was made to get rid of the massive amount of trees across Cedar Rapids, one of the hardest hit areas in Iowa, according to The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Thousands of downed trees from the 2020 derecho were originally turned into mulch, but now, some can be found in furniture, art, and housing materials.
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