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25 Cards in this Set
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Mars: Temperature, Greenhouse state, atmosphere, atmospheric compostion |
Lower average temps than earth: -50C to -60C GH effect lost Atmosphere v thin (lower CO2 concs) Atmospheric comp: mainly CO2 (95%) |
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Venus: Temperature, Greenhouse state, atmosphere, atmospheric compostion |
V. high avg tempss 460C Runaway GH effec Atmosphere v dense (high conc of CO2) Comp = CO2 97% |
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Earth |
Avg =20C |
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Drivers of natural long term climate change? |
Suns energy Milankovitch Variations in Earths geomagnetic field biological evolution rock weathering reactions |
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3 improvements of IPCC |
1) Modelling and future emmisions scenarios 2) Concecpts of climate change impacts 3) Uncertaintaity representations |
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Scenarios for future: A1 |
Market orientated Bad |
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Scenarios for future: A2
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Differentiated Less bad |
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Scenarios for future: B1 |
Convergent Getting there |
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Scenarios for future: B2
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Local solutions WOOO GR8 |
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Model possible incresase |
By 2100 1.1 to 6.4 C |
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Sea level rise between 1961 and 2003 |
1.8mm/yr |
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Sea level rise between 1993 and 2003 |
3.1mm/yr |
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Sensitivity |
degree of impact on a social system, community or individual |
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Resilience |
Ability to absorb disturbances |
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Adaptive capacity |
ability to adjust, moderate potential damages, cope with consequences or take opportunites |
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Glaciergate |
mistake in 2007 IPCC report that galciars in the himalyas could melt by 2035 (actually 2350) |
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Simon Lewis |
Had his views mispresented by the sunday times 'amazongate' |
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Climategate |
UEA scientists criticesed for lack of openess in 2010 |
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Mediaology |
role of scientists + journalists to ensure accuracy in media reports |
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Mann |
published article in the late 1990s shwoing the "hockey stick" graph for global temperature |
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Hindcasting |
reproducing the average climate of the recent past |
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Uncertainity repersenatiomn |
the process of assignig probabilities to liklihood of events
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Hulme + Mahony |
2010 Revuews research of IPCC |
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Maslin |
2009 5 to 6 C temp. rise is unthinkable, everyoe loses above 2C |
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