GEOG 1000 Lecture 8: 0917 Lecture Notes

• School: UConn
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1000
• Professor: Awanti Acharya, Hui Wang

Document Summary

Burning of coal and high levels of carbon dioxide. We would be heading towards an ice-age if humans didn"t exist. Artic warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Greenland ice sheet melting could raise water 20 feet. Glaciers breaking off cause water levels to raise. Glacier in greenland has more than a mile of retreat. Increase in harmful natural events due to climate change. Ignorance from younger generation leads to worsening of climate change. One of most important ways to get change is through politics. Government restricts amount of water allowed to be used in california. Climate change causing heavy rains which lead to flash floods. Warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor which means more rain. Weather patterns are becoming longer as the winds above the northern hemisphere slows down. Medium confidence that climate change affects mega-rain or mega-droughts . Drought when we don"t have enough water to do what we need.