GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Arctic Ocean, Human Geography, Anthropocene
3 Nov 2017
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The politics of climate change (technology and the poli of responsibility) Human activities has an impact on the physical structures of the earth. C02 naturally exists in the atmosphere and now the human activity is increasing the levels of c02 in a dangerous way. The second half of the 20the century where is it going up. It is due to the continue expansion of cars etc. Global temperatures of the air is rising (green house affect) It"s changing the earth especially at the poles (arctic sea extent) Sea levels are rising this has an impact on the islands and some costal communities. Example of an issues that happen because of the tide levels are so high that octopus appears in the parking garage. There are changes happening in the oceans and how the octopus are closer to shore than they are supposed to be. If it was the case of a tide they shouldn"t be that close
