ENV 1101 Lecture 10: ENV1101 - Lecture 10
16 Apr 2018
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Chapter 11 (water pollution and environmental toxins, contemporary water issues and challenges) Rcmp arrests trans mountain pipeline protesters at entrance of work site. Biodiversity: platypus milk has protein with potential to fight superbugs. Greenhouse gas concentrations: not solar radiation, volcanic eruptions, orbital variations or oscillations. Retain this positive feedback loop: less ice > less reflection > more warming > less ice. Vulnerability = potential for harm or loss. A function of : the nature of the physical changes to which a population is exposed, the sensitivity of that population to climatic variability and change, the adaptive capacity of that population. About lifestyle, politics, power, justice: but not really about science. Making the case: nobel prize 2007 winner albert arnold (al) gore jr. Doubting (opposing) the case: oi and gas industry, countries, states and provinces who receive large revenues from oil and gas, politicians beholden to oil industry. It worked global warming hoax exposed by climategate (2009)
