ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Global Warming, Environmental Policy, District Heating
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What you eat if you bought it a truck brought it! Climate change: all environmental policy comes back to climate change, what is the green house gas effect, brief history of global warming. Known as the green house gas effect. The average temp. would rise with more co2 warm. 14 degrees celsius is the average temperature. Without the atmosphere it would be -19! It is a natural mechanism . it allows the atmosphere to stay. Anthropogenic . long living greenhouse gases that we are. All occurs naturally but human beings now produce and. The more c02 the hotter it will get it is the same way a. We are pumping out way more c02 than necessary, which. It is a much larger phenomenon: 97% of scientist are certain that the greenhouse gas effect is real. Mitigation: trying to stop climate change anything trying to reduce it. Can mean decreasing how much we use (conservation) Adaptation: learn to adapt to climate change.
