GEOG 2400 Lecture 2: GEOG 2400 Lecture Notes
5 Oct 2018
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Majority of americans now say climate change makes hurricanes more intense . Climate change does not cause hurricanes, but perhaps may intensify. Republic critics: william ruckelshaus, william k. reilly, christie todd whitman, bob. 2017 is so far the second hottest year on record the guardian, 31 july 2017. 2016 was the hottest year on record scientific america, 18 jan 2017. Scientists aren"t always the best person to display the information to the public. Science and technology can solve many problems but also create. Prevention from getting too hot and too cold. Shortwave mostly uv rays and ionizing radiation. Most of these damaging rays are intercepted by the atmosphere before reaching earth"s surface. Get incoming solar radiation becomes warm body releases heat. Longwave infrared and visible which account for rest of solarbeam. What happens to the incoming solar radiation. 25% is reflected or scattered by clouds and atmospheric gases. 25% is absorbed by co2, water vapor, ozone, methane, other gases.
