Sept 17, 2025 at 7:00pm via zoom
“It’s a Bit More Than Warming” by Dr Alex Cannara, PhD
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Abstract:
2015: A Solution, Difficult, But Feasible…
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2025 – No More Time
Methane releases from natural sinks like tundra, are larger than our well leakages. This is now in positive feedback (releases breed more releases) independent of us. Siberian and US/Canadian tundra, for instance, are releasing CH4 at accelerating rates partly due to our past CO2 emissions. What we must know to prevent oceanic extinctions, especially of O2 producers & CO2 sequesters, on track to occur by 2050.
Bio:
Dr. Alexander Cannara is an electrical engineer, a computer networking consultant, and an educator. He earned a MS degree in EE, a MS degree in Statistics , and a PhD all from Stanford. His undergraduate EE degree is from Lehigh, where he became an IRE member before it merged with AIEE to become the IEEE. In summers, he worked at Ballantine Labs as a technician and later designed their 3570 digital measurement system. At Stanford, he did graduate work in plasma physics and wrote: “Electron-Beam Probing of Plasmas”. His PhD thesis was in Education, teaching computer principles/programming to middle-school students. That led to a DoE contract to develop computer-assisted instruction for handicapped schoolchildren in Cupertino.
Alex spent over 25 years in computer networking, about half of those managing developing and
delivering technical training for software & hardware engineers. Alex has spent years in consulting, helping tens of organizations with network design and operational issues. He has taught courses in engineering, statistics, computer programming and networking. More recently, Alex has addressed varied groups on energy and environmental topics, especially nuclear power and the global environment. Among those are: National Council on Science & Education, American Geophysical Union, The ASM, The Thorium Energy Alliance, The Humanist Society, Lockheed Martin, The Maker Faire, Stanford CISAC, The N. Sea Council, Cal Native Plant Soc, The Lynceans,The Catholic Diocese of Palo Alto…
Alex was born in NJ, has 3 children and now lives in Menlo Park.