One cloud to connect us all
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having your head
in the clouds means that you are not
paying attention
and being out of touch with everyday
life
i want to tell you a different story how
paying attention to cloud
make you more receptive to what is
happening around
us how you can help researchers and
fight climate change
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cumulus cirrus and stratus are
different types of clothes we name
clouds after
a classification system invented over
200 years ago
physical processes in the atmosphere
like
humidity wind speed and temperature will
all
affect the shape of the cloud cumulus
lenticularis
as an example forms on top of invisible
waves
in the sea of air energy is as
vital to us as the clean air however
with our energy use we have changed the
very composition of the atmosphere
and started global warming the air
circulates in every living being
and connect us through time and space so
climate change make it very clear
we are all linked together i would like
you to feel the same connection with the
air around us and the same commitment to
act against climate change
as i do so let’s visit the stavanger art
museum
this timeline describes how we
understand clothes
and how they appear in art and our daily
life
in this early days we believed in god’s
controlling the forces of nature
in norse mythology tour with a sledge
was the lightning god and freak goddess
of
love and destiny she was also
a sky goddess and is responsible
for weaving the clothes here
she is pictured while she is spinning
serious clouds in the renaissance
we started to investigate and
explain more of the world around us
art and science were truly intermixed
rafael was an architect and
a painter in 1514
he painted the famous sixteenths madonna
and i guess you have seen this picture
many times
but have you ever noticed all these
faces behind madonna what did raphael
paint
is it angels or unborn soul
in the atmosphere this timeline
is all about clothes let me know at the
story about
energy technology in
1765
here we invented the steam engine
coal was the main energy resource at the
time
and with this invention the first
industrial revolution started
we started to use the telegraph and
thermometer and we made
a huge advancement in how we simply
understood the atmosphere
and now we are getting closer
to the second industrial revolution
this was a time of impressive innovation
and technological development we got
automobiles and
airplanes and around 1870
we started to use the combustion engine
as early as in 1809
the swedish scientist svantarenius
explained the greenhouse effect and
warned us that the global temperature is
very sensitive to changes in the co2
level this month this
friend the physicist wilhelm bjerknes
discovered how we better can focus the
circulation in the atmosphere
and he modernized the field of
meteorology
during this period we became more and
more
dependent on fossil fuel in norway
the oil exploration started in 1969.
we made huge advancement in the field of
electronics
telecommunication and computers we call
this
the third industrial revolution in 1919
computer engineers began using the term
cloud for external storage services
and here we are in 2020
in the middle of the fourth industrial
revolution
sensor technology and artificial
intelligence will disrupt
and transform the society not at least
the energy industry
solar pvs and wind turbines are nowhere
very
effective but how can we store and share
energy we need more innovations
and this is what my work in newsno is
all about finding the next energy
innovation
investing climate tech to reduce global
co2 emissions
in all this period from
1800 and up till now we’ve been using
a lot of fossil fuels the global
temperature
is rising and we are facing a dangerous
climate change problem
the concentration of the co2 level has
gone from 280
to 410 parts per million
we need now to use our creativity and
find
new energy solutions we are linked
together
throughout the history to the present
time and over national borders and
forward in time
to the unborn souls of rafael
i am reminded of this silver lining
every time i look
at the sky never before have we been as
connected as we are now because a new
cloud is spreading
the digital cloud we as humans
are becoming data points with a
smartphone in our pocket we are
all geo positioned and traced and our
needs and preference
logged and all these data are stored
in the digital cloud cicero center of
international climate research
have launched a citizen science project
they would like all of us to go out and
find trails
from airplanes contrails forms
serious clouds and are affecting the
climate
nasa have developed an app they would
like us to use
so download the globe observer and start
observing the clouds
and share your observations in the
digital clouds
this is one concrete example of
climate act but i believe that
looking at their clothes can motivate
thousands of important climate acts
i’m struck by the beauty of the
atmosphere by the dynamic skyscape of
clothes
and how the atmosphere shows us so
clearly
that we are all interconnected
wherever we are our actions impact
everyone else on the planet
by caring for the atmosphere we go to
the very
heart of the problem go out
look at the clothes every day let the
site
move and motivate you in your daily life
to fight
climate change