Lucy Carpenter

HFC23, jota aiemmin mainitsin, on hot topic. Emme ole vielä nähneet toimintaa siitä, mutta jatketaan pyytämään tietoja heille. Toivon, että lopulta voimme antaa heille tarkemmin tietoa, jotta voimme tehdä toimintaa. Kaikki päätökset ovat tehty konsensussa, joten se on haastavaa. Mitä tapahtuu, jos maailma ei toimita tuomaan HFC23-tietoja?

We will see adverse effects on climate. It's already contributing about 15% of the radiative impact of all HFCs. I mean, there was a scientific study that showed the take-up of HFCs, particularly by developing countries, because of the continuing air conditioning and refrigeration needs, was just going to go up exponentially. Because the world's getting warmer. The world's getting warmer and more populated, and developing countries in some cases are getting richer as well. So, you know, off it went.

Joten jos emme tehdä sitä, niin seuraavaksi näemme lämpimän vaikutuksen. Tämä on globaalinen lämpimän mahdollisuus noin 14 000 kertaa enemmän kuin CO2. Hyvä. Toinen asia, jota pitää huomioida. Olemme tekemässä parhaamme. Olet työskennellyt projekteja, jotka osoittavat melko yksinkertaisia oikeuksia klimatioon. Kerro minulle toisella puolella, mitä sinulle antaa toivoa?

I think there's lots of reasons for hope in a climate sense. You see some of the things that are going on, for example, with solar and wind and electric vehicles and batteries and everything. There's some big change happening down the road. In the atmospheric side, the pollutants we work on

A quite short lived. So if you were to shut off the emissions, then the pollution actually goes away quite quickly. And COVID was a perfect example of that, where we saw in COVID, you know, cities that had this hazy air pollution suddenly clean up within a matter of days. So it can be done if the will is there.

It's a very large field with lots of problems, so I think you can find things that nobody else is doing. And I think, you know, nurture your scientific curiosity. If you find an idea or you find something that takes you maybe down a different road to the one you thought you were on, just carry on down that road, I would say. And yes, nurture the scientific curiosity, make great collaborations. That's part of the joy of science. Enjoy it.