PSY435H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Global Climate Coalition, Nicholas Kristof, Desmogblog
Document Summary
Our changes ripples out at least 3 lengths (if there are nodes of change all over the place, you can hit a majority) Changes can happen extremely rapidly possibility for non-linear rates of change. Has to do with inter-dependence (two things effect each other and have influence on each other) A b (and feedback loop) rates of change can change. If positive feedback loops happen in society you can see change dramatically changing- you never know. The science of climate change has changed a lot (over the past 10 and 5 years) The basic knowledge now is a lot less of a hypothesis than a long time ago (the consensus has changed a lot over the years) Global warming- energy in and energy out and the balance gives just the climate we have. Greenhouse gases have been going up dramatically since the industrial revolution. Mauna loa observatory in hawaii (they are tracking co2 concentrations) led to the first data set.
