Geography 1500F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ocean Acidification, Sea Level Rise, Ozone Depletion
14 Nov 2016
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Objectives: share recent updates on climate change science, challenge common conspiracy theories". Identify key challenges and achievements in the governance of climate change: discuss differentiated impacts of climate change around the world including conflict over water resources. Hundreds of experts from around the world. Only includes peer-reviewed science and ipcc reports themselves are extensively peer reviewed. The summary for policy makers is negotiated and approved line-by-line by government representatives. If volcanic activity creates an ash cloud : smoke mixing in with the clouds causes a cooling affect. Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of ghgs are the highest in history. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal . Has gotten significantly worse over the years online graphs that show the time spread progression in different colours with rings. Temperature change over the 20th century: average doesn"t mean consistent. Artic has had warming temperatures than any other region in the world.
