Global Climate Change

Global Climate Change

Perspectives on Nature and the Environment

Global Climate Change

• Unless otherwise noted, all slides are from a presentation developed by Katharine Hayhoe, a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University– She was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change as was awarded a Nobel Prize as part of that group.

– Her full presentation and other info is available athttp://katharinehayhoe.com/

Mauna Loa Curve

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Mauna_Loa_curve

Greenhouse Effect

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Greenhouse_effect

What experiment can we conduct to “prove” that human activity is causing global warming?

We only have one planet, so we can’t do a controlled, replicated, manipulative experiment?

Thus, we have to rely on mathematical models.

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change_%28IPCC%29

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)