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1 Global Climate Change for the Developing World http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/sladoch/g312/geog.htm

2 THE EARTH SYSTEM ATMOSPHERE HYDROSPHERE CRYOSPHERE GEOSPHERE BIOSPHERE

3 THE CLIMATE SYSTEM

4 CLIMATE VERSUS WEATHER Choose which one hurts less.

5 How Big Is Climate?

6 Temporal Aspects of Climate: Climate Variability Climate Change

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8 LA Civic Center (USC Campus) Annual Mean Temperature (1878-2007) Data: NOAA NWS (Los Angeles/Oxnard) Bill Patzert/JPL Year Degrees F

9 CA Warming Due To: Land Use (60%) Greenhouse Gas Warming (40%) California Temperature Changes (°F) 1950 - 2000 331 Met. Stations

10 California’s Extreme Makeover

11 CLIMATE AND SOCIETY Climate As a Resource Climate As a Hazard

12 BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

13 CARBON CYCLE

14 “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke

15 Tide Gauge Observations Average Rate ~ 1.8 mm/year 0.8 mm/year 2.0 mm/year 3.2 mm/year [Church and White, 2006] ~ 8 inches (20 cm) = 16,000 cubic miles!!! (67,000 cubic km)

16 Malibu’s “sandbagged” Broad Beach. The once-wide sand strip, swept away by waves and rising seas. Sea Level Rise

17 WHAT CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE?

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19 Very well. Give the heretic back his research funding. OK! I believe mankind causes global Warming!

20 To overturn the world economy based on the musings of a few idiot leftist scientists is just stupid, that’s what Global Warming is all about. -Rush Limbaugh-

21 Global Warming Guaranteed


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