Lecture 9

October 31

Global Warming

1. Historical overview
2. Sources and sinks of greenhouse gases
3. Measurements of CO2, methane
4. Measurements of temperature
   1. affected by insolations, natural phenomena
   2. ancient temperature fluctuations
   3. recent trends +0.5C in last century
   4. correlation between CO2 and T
5. Modeling
   1. systems
   2. feedback
   3. chaos
6. IPCC predictions

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