{"id":12544,"date":"2020-01-21T06:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2020-02-03T20:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:24:12","slug":"2020-01-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2020-01-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change: Science, Technology, Policy, and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Dr. Sandeep Agarwal<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., January 26, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Global greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase despite clear indications that the Earth may warm well beyond 2 deg C. In order to avoid extreme climate consequences, the present energy, industrial, and food production systems need to be decarbonized. Rapid growth of solar and wind, as well as falling prices of electric vehicles, shows that a world without fossil fuels is possible. This talk will focus on policies and technologies needed to achieve a net zero emissions world by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Our speaker, Dr. Sandeep Agarwal, works as a CTO of a solar startup. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children. He moved to the US from India around two decades back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/389072316\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/389072316\">2020-01-26 Sandeep Agarwal<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/268079913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo help our Forum series continue, please consider making a donation or becoming a member (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/<\/a>) of the Humanist Community.<\/p>\n<p>Do your online shopping at <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979<\/a>, and Amazon donates to the Humanist Community every time you do.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> If you would like to speak at a Forum, or know of someone who you think might be willing to speak at a Forum, please send an email about your idea to the <a href=\"mailto:hc-program@googlegroups.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">HCSV Program Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sandeep Agarwal 11 a.m., January 26, 2020 Global greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase despite clear indications that the Earth may warm well beyond 2 deg C. In order to avoid extreme climate consequences, the present energy, industrial, and food production systems need to be decarbonized. Rapid growth of solar and wind, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2020-01-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate Change: Science, Technology, Policy, and Politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12560,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions\/12560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}