The Meer Framework

Join Dr. Ye Tao along with Dr. Peter Wadhams, Paul Beckwith, and Regina Valdez for a presentation and conversation on the MEER Framework. MEER stands for Mirrors for Earth’s Energy Rebalancing.

This video was recorded at COP26, Glasgow, Scotland, in the Durdle Door press conference room on November 3rd, 2021, and published on November 26th, 2021. This presentation is brought to you through a collaboration with FacingFuture.Earth /// FacingFuture.TV.

According to Dr. Tao, temperature rise is the biggest and gravest concern that we face. We are overstepping a heat threshold. Thermal stress decimates biodiversity, ruining aquatic, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems alike. Humans may not be around once we transgress that redline. If we survive, we can have conversations about lowering emissions and deacidification. Prioritize temperature—then worry about greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and carbonic acid in the oceans!

MEER’s four fold mission is:

• To reflect solar radiation away from Earth to cool the biosphere
• To redirect solar radiation to capture its potential for enhancing food production and generating carbon-neutral energy
• To reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane by facilitating the biological and accelerating the chemical processes that are endemic to Earth’s oceans and atmosphere
• To establish an open and transparent network that promotes panhuman equity and solidarity and that supports those values through relentless innovation

Links:

• The MEER Framework website

• FacingFuture.TV video: The Voices of Four Young Activists – Listening to Grief and Courage. This is one of the programs that Ye was referring to in his introduction.

Special Guests:

• Dr. Ye Tao - In 2020, Dr. Ye Tao founded the MEER Framework after grasping the accelerating and ultimate consequences of the climate crisis on Earth’s delicate web of life. Educated as a nanotechnologist and instrumentation expert, he brings the benefits of a multidisciplinary background in engineering and science to problem solving.

• Dr. Peter Wadhams - Peter Wadhams ScD, is emeritus professor of Ocean Physics, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on sea ice.

Panelists:

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• The UNFCCC’s COP26 Media Crew in the Durdle Door Press Conference Room

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following organizations for making this program at COP26 possible:

• Tzu-Chi Foundation
• Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development
• International Society of Ecological Economics
• Sustainable Population Australia

Attributions

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: CC BY-NC 4.0