Lecture 12 - Thursday, 14 February 2013

Chapter 9 - Section 9.9

• The greenhouse effect
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• The observations: greenhouse gases
• The observations: temperature
• Radiative forcing
• Human influence on climate
• Climate model predictions

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Supplementary Material

Today's demonstrations: none.

There are many many web pages discussing climate change and the underlying science. Here are just a few, some of which were referenced in today's lecture:

• IPCC Homepage: http://www.ipcc.ch

• IPPC 2007 Summary for Policymakers (SPM), 18 pages, from Working Group I Report "The Physical Science Basis":
  http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography - the home of the Keeling curve: http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/

• Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004): http://www.acia.uaf.edu/

• The Government of Canada's "Action on Climate Change" website: http://www.climatechange.gc.ca

• The Government of Canada's "Climate Change" website: http://www.ec.gc.ca/cc

• Environment Canada's greenhouse gas information page: http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/ghg_home_e.cfm

• The Kyoto Protocol: http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php

• The RealClimate website - informative commentary site on climate science by scientists: http://www.realclimate.org

• Global Warming pages of the Union of Concerned Scientists: http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/

• Science magazine's web resources on Global Climate Change - has many informative links:
  http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5651/1719/DC1

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