SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Mauna Loa Observatory, Ocean Heat Content, Polar Vortex

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Change in the typical weather over an extended period of time. Changes in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns. The state of the atmosphere at a place and time. Why is it incorrect to use the argument it is too cold today to discredit the existence of climate change. Polar vortex is supposed to stay at the north pole but dwindling sea ice (from climate change) has caused the vortex to split in three places, and that"s why it"s cold down here. Polar vortex splits like this will become more common as climate change worsens. Why do scientists agree that humans are at least partially inducing the climate to. Human produced ghgs explain most of current climate change. Ghg (water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide) Serves as trapping heat in the troposphere. Ghg absorbs and redirects some of the heat from the sun back to.