how humans impact earth’s radiation balance global warming ozone layer destruction
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How Humans Impact Earth’s Radiation Balance
Global Warming
Ozone Layer Destruction
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Greenhouse Gases (like carbon dioxide) are like a rechargeable battery for heat
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Global Warming: A Preview in Classroom Resource Movies
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What are greenhouse gases?
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Always ask in climatic change: What has happened in the past?
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Always ask in climatic change: What has happened in the past?
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Eocene Warmth
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Eocene Arctic was ice free …
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Ice Age Fluctuations: Never above 300 ppm (parts per million)
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Classroom Resources
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CO2 helped warm Ice Age Earth
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Warming continued as civilizations flourished in the Holocene (last
10,000 years), then cooled with the sun in the Little Ice Age
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Warm Periods in the Holocene were wetter in Monsoon Asia
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Big Questions over Trends and whether natural or human caused
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Classroom Resource:Why is theStarting point 100 years ago? Industrial revolution? or After Little Ice Age?
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Graphs starting point
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Change from
Little Ice Age and
lower Solar
Output?
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Story is complicated by type of radiation
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Wild cards: organic & inorganic aerosols
(dust, pollution) cooling
influence
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So what happens if coal pollution is reduced?
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Will we get complacent in the next century, causing massive trouble in 50 years?
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Predictions Vary
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How much of the warming is due to “urban heat island”?
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Where are the thermometers?
Rural Kitt Peak
Urban growthPhoenix
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Always the problem: sorting out cause (GHG, Solar, Urban) from
the effect (warming in some places)
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Satellite Record: least bias• Red line (used to be no evidence of
warming)
• Blue & Green (lower and middle troposphere) – warming is evident, but is it natural or us?
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Potential Impacts: There will be Winners and Losers, just VERY hard to predict with models (good to try, just nobody really believes them)
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Winner: Plant Productivity
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Plants Plants love love
elevated elevated COCO22
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Winner: longer northern growing seasons for wheat
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Winner: India avoids drought from Cool Earth
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Long Record
Warm
Earth
Favors
Wetter
Asian
Monsoon
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Winner: More
Tropical Rain
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Loser: the Arctic (Classroom Resource Movie)
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Loser: close to shore
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Compilation and Analysis in Science – October 2005Read scale:centimeters
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So why show Florida under water?
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Real Evidence: Not sure if big ice sheets are melting
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Stakes are high for
low-lying places
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Agriculture: Predictions of Losers in Lower Latitudes
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Other possible effects (written by those favoring a need for quick action)
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““... climate models give no consistent indication ... climate models give no consistent indication whether tropical storms will increase or decrease in whether tropical storms will increase or decrease in frequency or intensity as climate changes; neither frequency or intensity as climate changes; neither is there any evidence that this has occurred over is there any evidence that this has occurred over
the past few decades.”the past few decades.” IPCC, IPCC, 1990 (p. xxv)1990 (p. xxv)
““Changes globally in tropical and extra-tropical storm Changes globally in tropical and extra-tropical storm intensity and frequency are dominated by inter-intensity and frequency are dominated by inter-decadal and multi-decadal variations, with no decadal and multi-decadal variations, with no
significant trends evident over the 20significant trends evident over the 20thth century.” century.”IPCC,IPCC, 2001, p. 5 2001, p. 5
More Hurricanes?
“Multi-decadal variability and the quality of the tropical cyclone records prior to routine satellite observations in about 1970 complicate the detection of long-term trends in tropical cyclone activity. There is no clear trend in the
annual numbers of tropical cyclones.”IPCC,IPCC, 2007, p. 6 2007, p. 6
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““Overall, there is no evidence Overall, there is no evidence that extreme weather events, that extreme weather events,
or climate variability, has or climate variability, has increased in a global sense, increased in a global sense,
through the 20through the 20thth century, century, although data and analyses are although data and analyses are poor and not poor and not comprehensive.”.”
Houghton et al., 1996,Houghton et al., 1996, IPCC, IPCC, p. 173p. 173
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"We are becoming more "We are becoming more vulnerable to natural disasters vulnerable to natural disasters
because of trends of our because of trends of our society rather than those of society rather than those of
nature. In other words, we are nature. In other words, we are placing more property in placing more property in
harm's way."harm's way."
van der Vink et al., 1998,van der Vink et al., 1998, EOS, EOS, p. 537p. 537
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Extreme chance:Reduce
Gulf Stream
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Not Not tomorrow!tomorrow!
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What to do?
• Set policies by governments?• Make personal choices (my choice is to
hang laundry on the line, ride my bike, use evaporative cooler) save money, while reducing my contribution to GHG
• Ask China and other societies not to industrialize? China generates more GHG than USA!
• Great setting for classroom lessons
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Classroom Resource
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Extreme Solution
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It all comes
down to
Keeping
Earth’s
radiation in
balance
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Time Special Report
Understand Understand difference difference
between science between science & media spin& media spin
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Human Impact on Radiation BalanceIgnored by the Media: Ozone Crisis
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Why media ignores? Fear of chemistry?
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Or not understand completely different problems?
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Positive Feedback Started Buildup
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Ozone Still Made in Lower
Latitudes
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Classroom Resource
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First question: has Earth’s biosphere survived past reduction in ozone?
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Classroom Resource
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Fear is damage by UV radiation
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What’s the crisis? We add more chlorine to the stratosphere
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Classroom Resources
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Polar Stratospheric Clouds Key
Classroom Resource
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Creates Antarctic Ozone Hole
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Classroom Resources
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Keeps getting worse
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Arctic less problematic because warmer (less polar stratospheric clouds) – except in cold years
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We add other ozone-destroying agents
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Politics & predictions ignore legal and illegal cheating
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Imagery seen in this presentation is courtesy of Ron Dorn and other ASU colleagues, students and colleagues in other academic departments, individual illustrations in scholarly journals such as Science and Nature, scholarly societies such as the Association of American Geographers, city,state governments, other countries government websites and U.S. government agencies such as NASA, USGS, NRCS, Library of Congress, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service USAID and NOAA.