SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Runaway Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord
Document Summary
Climate change disinformation: putting out false information. Started in 1989, lead by fossil fuels companies; hired fake experts to create confusion in the minds of the public. To make the public believe that no one (including the scientists) understand exactly what is happening with the climate and whether or not global warming is a threat or not. End of the last ice age was 12000 years ago and the holocene era began. Approximately 80000 years until the next ice age. In between then is called the interglacial period, during which the temperature will vary by 1. 5 degrees celsius. It is a natural cycle of warming and cooling. By the end of the century the temperature is supposed to rise 5 degrees. The natural cycle is no where near human production of co2. It is changing so quickly plants and animals do not have time to adapt (massive extinction)
