Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Pleistocene, Geophysics, Northern Hemisphere
27 Jan 2014
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If things continue (business as usual) and greenhouse gases continue at their rate, the artic is most vulnerable to heating (heated 2x more than any other region in the world so far). Certain regions in africa will increase by 3c un development program made a report on climate change, and stated climate change overarches everything in human development (less capacity to adapt to the changing world) 2013 summer itcz affirmed that weather is becoming more seasonal and unpredictable (and what people working in agriculture are saying) Changing climate seen in lake chad (on the border of niger, chad and nigeria) in the last 3 decades it has shrunk by more than half areas in red are only seasonal. Overall surface area and volume has decreased drastically. Atmospheric footprint there are disparities around the world. Person in canada has bigger carbon footprint than person in sahel. China recently passed the us in aggregate carbon emission.
