BIOL 1440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Icebreaker
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Say hello to your conversation partner and turn to next page in course journal (p. 131). Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal - intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc) Our atmosphere is slowly trapping heat and reflecting it back to the earth. Solar radiation, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, etc. Much of the energy is reflected back to earth, but a little energy escapes. In looking at actual temperatures, there has been a huge increase in temperature. This has lead to a number of climate anomalies and events. Arctic and antarctic sea ice has decreased more and more each year. Europe has seen warmer than average weather conditions. New zealand january 2018 was the warmest month than any month on record since 1909. Australia had its third highest january temperature since 1910. There has also been an increase in the levels of carbon dioxide. We have more carbon dioxide dissolving in the water now .
