Global Climate Change for the Developing World
THE EARTH SYSTEM ATMOSPHERE HYDROSPHERE CRYOSPHERE GEOSPHERE BIOSPHERE
THE CLIMATE SYSTEM
CLIMATE VERSUS WEATHER Choose which one hurts less.
How Big Is Climate?
Temporal Aspects of Climate: Climate Variability Climate Change
LA Civic Center (USC Campus) Annual Mean Temperature ( ) Data: NOAA NWS (Los Angeles/Oxnard) Bill Patzert/JPL Year Degrees F
CA Warming Due To: Land Use (60%) Greenhouse Gas Warming (40%) California Temperature Changes (°F) Met. Stations
California’s Extreme Makeover
CLIMATE AND SOCIETY Climate As a Resource Climate As a Hazard
BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
CARBON CYCLE
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke
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)
Malibu’s “sandbagged” Broad Beach. The once-wide sand strip, swept away by waves and rising seas. Sea Level Rise
WHAT CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE?
Very well. Give the heretic back his research funding. OK! I believe mankind causes global Warming!
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-
Global Warming Guaranteed