Reflection of the lecture on 30th January

Report to the lecture on 30 January
In the lecture, all of the three lecturer present information of how to reduce the emission of Carbon dioxide. Also the purpose of the lecture is to inform us of climate change on the fields of technology and policy, and it generally focuses on global warming. There are quite a lot of new system approaches to mitigate this serious problem of climate change which are interesting to me. Here, I would like to summarize base on my own understanding.
The first lecturer, professor Palmer, talks much about reducing of Carbon dioxide on new technologies and policies. That is Carbon dioxide capture and storage. He gives plenty of information of the effect of Carbon dioxide as the greenhouse gas and the response that people should have to the emission of Carbon dioxide. In this part, he does show some ways of solving the problem, like switch the conventional source to some advance renewable ones. After that, he gives us a few policies on reducing the emission of Carbon dioxide. And a couple of examples are provide like the actions in UK government can take such as to tax petrol heavily. Then, it is something on Carbon dioxide capture. He gives details of its process and result. Also there is reasons why it is not widely applied.
Then comes the second lecturer, Dr. Sovacool. He talks about using STS (Science & Technology Studies) to address energy and technological problems. The whole presentation he makes, from my opinion, is about the systematical approaches. What he states is that solving the environmental problem is not simply about technology. He start his talk by assigning the traditional and society science methods as a introduction of STS. Consequently, he starts his thought that the political approach is needed and the conventional behaviour, culture, economy and technology should be challenged. He ends up with the use of STS.
Finally, the third lecturer, Dr Rajasekhar Bala, present his topic "Climate Change". His main point is to talk about how the greenhouse gas will affect the nature and environment of the earth (global warming). Firstly, the graphs he provides as evidence convinces that the greenhouse gas is causing a global change of temperature. Furthermore, he shows simple model of how to determine the average temperature and the condition of greenhouse gas in atmosphere. Then he rises the question "How to prevent global warming". Lastly, he suggests the response and action on both political and individual.
From my point of view, I find there are a few things the government can do, when I am thinking about professor Palmer's and Dr. Sovacool's topics. For instance, a policy of changing the conventional source in to the renewable ones like solar energy should be published. Moreover, what Dr Rajasekhar Bala talks really gives me a thought of how should we do as individuals. Just like those environmental interest groups, what they are doing is setting demonstration for us. Maybe taking the public transportation is one of them. As in sum, the problem of global warming can be solved if and only if everyone plays a role of participant.