GEOG 1982 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paris Agreement, Permafrost
13 Sep 2017
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Climate change is discussed predominantly on the west coast, more liberal states, north east, big cities, and college towns. The cartographer is choosing what to put on and what to leave off the map. Scales, colors, perspective are all part of cartographer bias. There are two types of systems on earth: a human system is any man-made space on earth (farms, cities etc. , a natural system is anything made by nature (climate, water, soil etc. ) Due to the (cid:373)assi(cid:448)e o(cid:448)eruses of gas, (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e da(cid:373)aged earth"s (cid:374)atural syste(cid:373). S(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tists predi(cid:272)t the poles will become increasingly hotter over the next several decades. Russia will also be extremely impacted due to its proximity to the poles. Climate describes the projected temperature over a long period of time. Weather describes the projected temperature for a certain day. The official board of all things climate change is the ipcc. Gla(cid:272)iers store (cid:373)ost of the (cid:449)orld"s dri(cid:374)ka(cid:271)le (cid:449)ater.
