CHM310H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gulf Stream, Paleoclimatology, Thermohaline Circulation
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Ipcc summary: human and natural drivers of climate change, green house gases have been offset by aerosols, lot of aerosol effects are from burning dirty coal , sulfur emmisson from automobiles, diesel particular emission filters. The coal their exhaust onto a filter, and it clogs up. They put their exhaust to a filter that gets clogs up and which they burn for 1000 degrees, and they out a huge amount of aerosol: china and east asia is putting out lot of aerosols. 50 years from now into the future, the technology will get modified. The expectation is this amount will reduce with time. and co2 will get warmer. If you are still in the middle of the pacific you are getting warmer, no aerosol effects. Not only increasing temperature: sea level changes, in bangladesh the increasing temperature is huge impact, in case their land gets flooded, over the ladt 100 years it was 115mm.
