EAS 1540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sea Level Rise, 2Degrees
25 Aug 2016
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# how climate change can end up whacking us all# # how we can x it for free# # swedish nobel prize winning scientist who noticed we were burning a lot of fossil fuels = greenhouse e ect, which would lead to a warmer world# # rst paper on global warming: calculated how much the world would warm if we were to double co2 in the atmosphere (thought it would take 3,000 years, and thought it would be a good thing)# 1958 (56 years ago)# climate change is not a new idea# short clip: touches on the release of co2 into the atmosphere, melting the polar ice caps and lling the continents with water# # we can expect to see 15 feet of sea level rise in 100-300 years from now# all of the us will be dustbowl# # probability of mega drought is 75% in texas in the next few years#
