EVST 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 57 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Talks about trees with abilities to feel and communicate. Gets us to think about natural world. Co2 released from fossil fuels traps in solar radiation. Can"t pass through methane, water vapor, aerosols (mixture of solids in gas) Holocene is the time after the last ice age. Anthropocene is humans affect climate as a whole. Heat input changes how ocean and atmosphere run. Shifts of global axis and connections between c02 variation and ice age sequence. No more dead old growth trees for insects. Brown tree snake introduced to guam in 1940s. Offloading of costly consequences of public or private actions onto the commons . Consequences are not intended but have a negative impact. Radiation leaking is contained by pcb chemicals. Pcb leaked into the hudson river from a plant outside of nyc. Production technology is more intensively managed than maintenance technology. Electric generation plants add twice c02 than motor vehicles.
