Citizen Pedro

By Rollin Dix

Pedro immigrates from Mexico to the USA for college and in 2020 obtains a job with a new Department of Climate Control. His life includes girl friends, marriage, children, and work on an island where a pipe extending into the stratosphere is injecting sulfur dioxide to create sun-reflecting droplets.

Although the continuing story of Pedro is fictional, excerpts from many scientific journals, authoritative newspaper and magazine articles accurately describe the climate change emergency. Coverage of climate change conferences organized by the Citizens Climate Lobby and the Miami-based Climate Leadership Education and Outreach project are also included.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781794723757

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Citizen Pedro

CITIZEN PEDRO

INTRODUCTION

January 2019

Wow, this EDx.org course of Michael Mann really explains everything said nineteen-year-old Purdue sophomore Pedro.  For example? exclaimed his girlfriend Alicia as she sat down on the worn sofa in his dorm room.

"I’ve learned that the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere 500 million years ago was many times the 430 parts per million we have today!  That caused the earth to be so warm that lush green forests covered the earth and dinosaurs roamed far north of Colorado.

The chlorophyll in the forest trees and bushes and that in the oceans converted the CO2 in the air into plant fiber and oxygen.  That’s why we have breathable air today."

That was a good thing but where did the trees go? Felicia asked/

The plant fiber fell to the ground, was covered and compressed and became the coal, oil and gas in the earth.  Hundreds of millions of years of that process is why we have fossil fuels to burn today!

Felicia asked, So as we burn the coal, we return CO2 to the air and that greenhouse gas will cause the earth to heat back up?

Yup said Pedro and the ice will melt, and the oceans rise so Florida will go back under water!  It makes me very sad.

AUTHOR’S NOTE – Pedro, Alicia and some of the other characters in the story are fictitious, but Michael Mann is a professor at Penn State and EDx.org is a great resource for free education on hundreds of subjects.

Essentially all climate scientists agree with him that the global warming emergency is here now and will cause catastrophic climate changes killing billions of people if unchecked.

The only solution is eliminating use of fossil fuels and releases of methane.  Unfortunately, the population explosion and economic developments of the past 50 years plus the inertia of governments mean that reducing CO2 production to slow global warming will take decades.

Fee & dividend (House bill 763) looks best in the US for action on CO2 reduction!  The Vatican Energy Transition Dialogs looks best for reducing CO2 emissions worldwide.

In this climate science fiction story I describe ways to cool the earth by blocking the sun and give more details on the causes of the climate crisis.

Will things turn out as well as in my story?  They won’t unless we convince our governments