SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Microgram, World Health Organization, Price Signal
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Feb 26th lecture 18 sociology of the environment byrm. Technology is often defined as the application of scientific principles to the improvement of human life. Normal accidents are mishaps that occur because the very complexity of modern technologies ensures they will inevitably fail, though in unpredictable ways. How can we overcome the danger of climate change? ) Global warming and polar ice (begin at 18 centuries: heat-trapping gases produced mainly by human activity collect in the atmosphere (co2. Average annual surface air temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide, 1880 2012. Safe upper limit by scientific consensus: 17. 5 parts per 50,000 or 350 parts per million. Atmospheric carbon dioxide in parts per 50,000. Average annual surface air temperature in degrees celsius. Since 1880, atmospheric carbon dioxide starts to increase. Since 1880, average annual surface air temperature in degrees celsius also starts to increase. From 1970, atmospheric carbon dioxide starts to increasing like rocket. Http://svs. gsfc. nasa. gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004030/2012gisstemp_datescolorbarcentere d. m4v (north is warmer than south.
