ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Svante Arrhenius, Kyoto Protocol, Core Sample
31 Mar 2013
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Svante arrhenius 1898 sketched out hypothetical about doubling of co2. If that happened, then the temperature of the planet will rise about 2 degrees centigrade. Ghg effect occurs all the time- solar radiation comes in and much of it bounces off. Human intervention is changing the atmospheric carbon net increase every year. Glaciers are retreating, other than the few outliers. Sea ice is shrinking, creating more dark space. The more dark space, the more heat absorption. There is a lot of permafrost in canada, especially in the north. The melting would create methane and ghgs into the air. Intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc)- mixture of science and other analysis about climate change, forming reports and reporting to the. One solution: ice core drilling- get pure space and drill down the ice as far back as many thousands of years. This is a direct examination of the past, you can tell by the core sample.
