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Global Climate Change
Perspectives on Nature and the Environment
Global Climate Change
• Unless otherwise noted, all slides are from a presentation developed by Katharine Hayhoe, a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University– She was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change as was awarded a Nobel Prize as part of that group.
– Her full presentation and other info is available athttp://katharinehayhoe.com/
Mauna Loa Curve
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Mauna_Loa_curve
Greenhouse Effect
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Greenhouse_effect
What experiment can we conduct to “prove” that human activity is causing global warming?
We only have one planet, so we can’t do a controlled, replicated, manipulative experiment?
Thus, we have to rely on mathematical models.
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change_%28IPCC%29
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)