EESA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Climate Summit, Carbon Offset, Kyoto Protocol
16 Nov 2016
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Eesa01h3 f: lecture 9 - biodiversity and conservation. The strawman argument: argument is when you present your opponent"s viewpoint as being absurd and something it"s not. Then you attack the straw man you"ve created and claim that you"ve won. Saying that scientists claim that all cycles of climate change throughout history have been a result of atmospheric co2. The greenhouse effect: incoming solar radiation from the sun enters the atmosphere in short wavelengths and the planet absorbs nearly 70%. The rest is reflected by the surface of the earth, aerosols, and clouds. Heat is re emitted as longwave radiation. Some of this is absorbed by the atmosphere and the rest returns to space, this causes the greenhouse effect. The earth would have an average temperature of -20/ -25 c without greenhouse gases. Shorter wavelengths are uv radiation and long wavelengths are infrared radiation. Most greenhouse gases are both natural and human-generated.
