GEOG 2200 Lecture 2: Week 9 Lecture 2 GEOG 2200 2012 Notes.docx
5 Jun 2014
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Certainly hollywood has presented us with a diverse collection of disaster movies and more recently movies inspired by climate change. Last tuesday i ended with a short video about the climate change debate. Place matters when it come to climate and will be even more important when it comes to changes in our climate. We live in an interglacial period the holocene epoch, or interglacial period. Before the holocene interglacial was the frigid pleistocene the last ice age when all of canada was covered by the wisconsinan glaciers. The severity of the late pleistocene period was enhanced by the explosion of toba, in present-day indonesia. This volcano didn"t just erupt it exploded (like tambora in 1815) sending millions of tons of debris into the upper atmosphere, obscuring the sun and sending the. The crater of toba remains about 90 kilometres long and 50 kilometres wide.
