GEOL 106 Lecture Notes - Multiple Choice, Industrial Revolution, Carbon Cycle

60 views9 pages

Document Summary

Weather: short-term (days to weeks) atmospheric conditions (temperature/rainfall/etc) Climate: long-term (years/decades/centuries) atmospheric conditions, eg, tropical vs. temperature vs. arctic climates. The rock record" tells us that there certainly has been climate change in the past. Eg. look at kingston ontario: covered in ice sheets 20,000 years ago, covered in shallow tropical seas 500,000,000 years ago (ie. 500 million years) Why might climate change: natural" causes, eg. increased solar luminosity (sun getting brighter) the sun was. 0. 7 4 billion years ago and now it is 1. 0: anthropogenic causes (human induced, burning coal/oil/gas , perhaps adding carbon dioxide (co2) to the atmosphere and heating it. Yes: green house gases heat out atmosphere h2o,co2, ch4 (methane), Nox(nitrous oxides), 03 (ozone: without them, the average earth surface temperature would be -20*c (below freezing) So: we will look at the hazard posed by enhanced global warming as an example of climate change.

Get access

Grade+20% off
$8 USD/m$10 USD/m
Billed $96 USD annually
Grade+
Homework Help
Study Guides
Textbook Solutions
Class Notes
Textbook Notes
Booster Class
40 Verified Answers
Class+
$8 USD/m
Billed $96 USD annually
Class+
Homework Help
Study Guides
Textbook Solutions
Class Notes
Textbook Notes
Booster Class
30 Verified Answers

Related Documents

Related Questions