PHIL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Precautionary Principle, Risk Management, Ocean Heat Content
15 Jul 2020
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As such, it should be of serious concern to both moral philosophers and humanity at large. Intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc) has submitted three comprehensive reports, in. The main findings of the most recent are as follows: The global average surface temperature has increased over the 20th century by about 0. 6 c . The increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to have been the largest ofany century during the past 1,000 years . "for other phenomena, they say that snow cover and ice extent have decreased, global average sea level has risen, and ocean heat content has increased. They also cite evidence for increases in the amount of precipitation in some regions; the frequency of heavy precipitation events" The ipcc also tries to predict future climate. To do so, it uses computer models to simulate a variety of different possible future scenarios, incorporating different assumptions about economic growth, world population, and technological change.
