EESC 1174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 2Degrees, Thermal Expansion
20 Jun 2016
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Bottom line: continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate system. Limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. A. 2. weather cannot be predicted beyond a week it is chaotic - you slightly change one thing the temperature for the day could be totally different. A. 2. a) butterfly effect - butterfly flapping on one side of the world creates a hurri- cane on the other side: climate. C. 3. the statistics of weather can predict over a range of scales the stock market on a day versus years. Smokers who can live long versus the majority of smokers. Easier to predict it will be warmer in 50 years than in one year. A. 1. estimate of what the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will be in 30 50 100 years (the forcing)
