How to Solve Climate Change

Today you will learn from expert guest Nancy Knowlton about ocean & seafloor protection, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.

Summary

Guest: Nancy Knowlton

Dr. Nancy Knowlton is the former Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and a scientific leader of the Census of Marine Life. She wrote the book, Citizens of the Sea, to celebrate the ten years of the Census. She founded the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego. Knowlton has devoted her life to studying, celebrating, and striving to protect the multitude of life-forms that call the sea home. She lives with her family in Maine.

Follow Nancy Knowlton:

Explain succinctly what ocean and seafloor protection is from first principles.

Why does ocean and seafloor protection help to solve climate change?

Steel man the other side. Why would ocean and seafloor protection NOT work to solve climate change?

Who benefits most by implementing ocean and seafloor protection as a solution?

Who is harmed most by implementing ocean and seafloor protection as a solution?

How does ocean and seafloor protection work as a solution to climate change?

For ocean and seafloor protection as a solution to work, what innovation or policy needs to be created?

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Additional Resources

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Top Skills To Learn

Our guest recommends learning the following skills:

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Activity

Activity: Seafloor Carbon Mapping

Description: Research seafloor carbon storage sites such as seagrass beds and kelp forests. Map their distribution and calculate their carbon sequestration potential.

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