Technology And Global Warming

THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, MALAYSIA Bangunan Ingenieur, Lots 60/62, Jalan 52/4, Peti Surat 223 (Jalan Sultan) 46720 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan Tel : 03-79684001/2 Fax : 03-79577678 E-mail : [email protected] IEM Homepage: http://www.iem.org.my

Talk on ‘TECHNOLOGY and GLOBAL WARMING’ (Organised by the Agricultural and Food Engineering Technical Division)

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24 January 2009 (Saturday)

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9:00 a.m. to to 11:00 a.m. (Refreshment would be served at 8:30 a.m.)

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IEM Conference Hall A, 2nd Floor, Bangunan Ingenieur, P. Jaya

Speaker

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Engr. Ooi Ho Seng

BEM APPROVED CPD/PDP HOURS : 2 REF. NO. : IEM08 IEM08 / HQ / 321 / T

NOTE : This talk would be in conjunction with the 10th AFETD’s AGM at 11:00 a.m.

~ SYNOPSIS ~ The atmosphere acts as an insulating blanket to keep the average temperature of our planet Earth within a pleasant range. The green house effect on the trace gases of the atmosphere, such Carbon Dioxide, keep the heat near the Earth surface and keep out the cold of the outer space. The climate of Earth however is unstable and since the end of the ice age some 10,000 years ago, the average temperature of the Earth has increased steadily from a few degrees Centigrade to more than 15 degrees Centigrade. Since the Industrial Revolution, the Carbon Dioxide concentrations have increased from about 280ppm to 365ppm and the Earth temperature goes up as the Carbon Dioxide concentrations increase. The effect of global warming is a change in the climate and weather patterns which hastens the extinction of species, influence the lengths of seasons, cause coastal flooding, and lead to more frequent and severe storms. The response to global warming includes the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012 by all countries except United States and Kazakhstan after the United Nations climate talk in December 2007. The solution to global warming is Carbon (Greenhouse Gases) Management and the strategy is three pronged, i.e. Policy, Education and Technology. ~ BIODATA OF SPEAKERS ~ The bio-data of the speaker: Engr Ooi is the out-going advisor of AFETD. He has spent more than 30 years working in MARDI as a research officer in agricultural engineering, specialising in machinery design and mechanisation of crop cultivation and post harvest processing. After retiring from MARDI in 2005, Engr Ooi worked as a part-time lecturer at the University of Monash Sunway in 2006 and 2007. He is a director of SGT Konsult Sdn Bhd, an engineering consultancy company specialising in oil palm mill construction and upgrading, since 2006, and a director of O3 Solutions Sdn Bhd, a biotechnology research company specialising in the treatment and management of palm oil mill wastes, agricultural wastes, livestock wastes and other bio-wastes, since 2007 ENGR. KUMAR SUBRAMANIAM CHAIRMAN, SESSION 2008/2009 AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD ENGINEERING TECHNICAL DIVISION Announcement to note: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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