{"id":15,"date":"2008-09-09T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T16:54:11","slug":"climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Conference, Day 2: Re-roof the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning presentations covered various public health effects from climate change (mostly from air pollution) and some ideas for carbon sequestration, from the potential for low-tech wetlands storage, to the huge <a title=\"Beyer WestCarb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechange.ca.gov\/events\/2008_conference\/presentations\/2008-09-09\/John_Henry_Beyer.pdf\">WestCarb pilot project<\/a>, aimed at injecting surplus carbon dioxide into subterranean rock formations. Just approved by DOE is a plan to inject a million tons of CO2 over a four-year period, at a site near Bakersfield. John Henry Beyer of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab says that oil companies may be able to use the stored CO2 for &#8220;enhanced oil &amp; gas recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greg Rau of UC Santa Cruz cast the mandatory pall-of-the-day with a blunt assessment of the battle against global warming: &#8220;We are failing to mitigate atmospheric CO2.&#8221; Too much of growing energy demand is being met with fossil fuels, Rau explained. &#8220;We need to urgently think about this.&#8221; Most of Rau&#8217;s talk was devoted to the problem of ocean acidification, recently profiled by my colleague <a title=\"Sommer_Acidic Seas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/quest\/radio\/acidic-seas\">Lauren Sommer<\/a> for Quest Radio.<\/p>\n<p>One guy who&#8217;s done a lot of thinking about it is Hashem Akbari, who will take the lectern today to call upon cities around the world to move rapidly toward &#8220;cool roof&#8221; policies. Akbari, who works at <a title=\"LBNL Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbl.gov\/\">Lawrence Berkeley National Lab<\/a>, has been a long-time advocate of using reflective roofing and paving materials to help offset the effect of &#8220;urban heat islands.&#8221; He says that replacing the roof of one typical suburban home (about 1,000 square feet) can produce a CO2 &#8220;offset&#8221; of four metric tons. He adds that replacing flat commercial roofing with white &#8220;cool&#8221; roofing or coatings can increase the solar reflectance of the roof from as low as 10% to as high as 80% (at least until it gets dirty). I\u00a0 interviewed Akbari for a <a title=\"Miller_Heat Islands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/quest\/radio\/view\/82\">Quest Radio piece<\/a> on heat islands last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate conference highlights from Day 2: Carbon sequestration, cool roofs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169,329,448],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power","tag-doe","tag-lawrence-berkeley-national-lab","tag-public-health"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Climate Conference, Day 2: Re-roof the World | Climate Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Climate Conference, Day 2: Re-roof the World | Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Climate conference highlights from Day 2: Carbon sequestration, cool roofs.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-09-09T16:54:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Craig Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@voxterra\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Craig Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/\",\"name\":\"Climate Conference, Day 2: Re-roof the World | Climate Watch\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-09-09T16:54:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-09-09T16:54:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/f7222c517400a6c4b0336fca3652c323\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/09\/climate-conference-day-2-re-roof-the-world\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Climate Conference, Day 2: Re-roof the World\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/\",\"name\":\"Climate Watch\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/f7222c517400a6c4b0336fca3652c323\",\"name\":\"Craig Miller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/dd8f4f4f978df3faac9db4c510939ea0\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b91661df645e001a9cafe0861fa685f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b91661df645e001a9cafe0861fa685f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Craig Miller\"},\"description\":\"Craig is a former KQED Science editor, specializing in weather, climate, water &amp; energy issues, with a little seismology thrown in just to shake things up. 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