GEOG 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Radiative Forcing, Urban Heat Island, Thermal Conductivity
Document Summary
The role of cities in global climate change. The role of cities in anthropogenic climate change. Population growth --> associated with industrialization and urbanization and have altered the climate system to a regional and. Climate change caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations (e. g. long-lived greenhouse gases - in particular, carbon dioxide + methane + nitrous oxide) Alters the way in which radiation gets transferred from the surface (important to note that there is a greenhouse effect without humans, but its just humans are changing the equation of the greenhouse effect) Increasing air/water temperatures --> due to increasing emission of fossil fuels. Reductions in annual ice and snow-cover and thus, consequent sea level rise. Puts urban areas at risk and they need to adapt --> they need to adapt to those changes. Cities and climate change --> there are 2 general perspectives on cities and global climate change that have overlap.
