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1 A few more air pollutants of note: Lead VOC’s (volatile organic compounds) Particulates CFC’s (see ozone)

2 As Wallace Broecker likes to say, the Earth's climate system is "an angry beast“Wallace Broecker and “one that we should not be poking with sticks.”

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10 http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm

11 http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm

12 http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm

13 http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm

14 http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm

15 http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm

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17 Carbon dioxide and temperature – a ‘chicken and egg’ problem.

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19 Other historical indicators: reduction in sea ice; retreat of valley glaciers; earlier lake ice melt; warming of permafrost; etc.

20 The ‘Keeling Curve”

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22 http://www.met-office.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/pubs/brochures/B2000/climate.html

23 http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~davidc/ATMS211/Lecture3-slides-PDF.pdf

24 source: http://www.bom.gov.au/ El Nino impacts?

25 source: http://www.bom.gov.au/

26 ENSO – El Nino Southern Oscillation

27 source: http://www.bom.gov.au/

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