MEC 280 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Little Ice Age, Pentagon

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Course: MEC 280
• Professor: Juldeh Sesay

Document Summary

Outline two natural forces that caused the end of the little ice age. Industrialization and anthropogenic pollution caused by greenhouse gasses. Increased volcanic activities that produced a huge amount of ash into the atmosphere. Large amount of sulfur that made from volcanic activities form sulfuric acid droplets which reflect sunlight back to space, cooling the earth"s surface. Caused by cold water deep in its oceans. The heat is melting arctic ice, flooding the north atlantic with freshwater, which threatens to shut down the oceanic conveyor that warms the earth. Outline 2 possible consequences that were included in the pentagon report by the commission. Within a decade, nations are rapidly drained of food, water and energy resources critical to national survival. One global super power mobilizes its resources trying to stabilize it. The u. s"s role as a global cop will get much bigger than even today. As the cold, dry climate persists, famine intensifies in the nations neighboring its southern border.