ENGR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Skeptical Environmentalist, Ipcc Fourth Assessment Report, Sea Level Rise
Document Summary
Global warming/climate change has long had detractor and skeptics, e. g. the skeptical. Al gore (an inconvenient truth: a global warning) was co-recipient of the 2007 nobel. Film/book explained environment research in layman"s terms: global warming is. Debate essentially ended when intergovernmental panel climate change (ipcc) issued real and present danger to our way of life. Climate change directly linked to global warming. Caused by ghgs that result mainly from human burning fossil fuels. Worldwide atmospherics concentrations ghg at levels which greatly exceed pre-industrial values. Temperature will rise . 3 to 4. 8 c over the next century. Temperature will rise of 1 due to ghgs already in atmosphere. Greatest temperature rese will be in artic/antarctic. Sea level rise (due to decline in ice volume) May increase sea level 26 cm to 82 cm by 2100. Risk of floods in vulnerable coastal cities. Changes in arctic temperatures, ocean salinity, wind.
