Fingerprints Of Climate Change Flashcards
Scientists predict an increase in droughts, floods and extreme weather, who are they saying is to blame?
Humans and there dastardly activities
The earth is getting what?
Warmer fam
When were the mad test reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published?
2013 and 2014
What do the IPCC reports explain?
Our understanding if climate change and consider the possible impacts. They bring evidence presented by hundreds of scientists around the world
What were the global temperature anomalies of 1850 and 2010 compared to the 1961-1990 average?
1850 -0.4
2010 0.6
Trust fletcher in Switzerland had a basin, thinning of the tounge in the 1990s caused whit in 2001?
A lake to begin to form in front of it
Are there more glaciers in retreat or glaciers in advance in the Antarctic Peninsula from 1945-present?
Glaciers in retreat
In 1950s summer arctic sea ice extent was 12km squared, what is it presently?
6kmsquared
What happened on August 26 2012 to do with the Arctic sea?
Sea ice fell to its smallest extent recorded in more than 3 decades (NASA 2012)
There is a positive correlation in the parts per million of atmospheric co2 from the Mauna Loa Observatory. What was the levels in 1960 and what in 2010?
1960 - 320
2010 - 400
Global mean sea level rise expected to increase by what in the next 100 years?
1m (IPCC 2013)
Primary energy demand is more in 2011-2035 than 1987-2011. What are the levels for gas and renewables?
Gas - 1987-2011- 1250mtoe(million tonnes of oil equivalent)
2011-2035 - 2600 mtoe
Renewables - 1987-2011-700mtoe
2011-2035 - 2000mtoe
Today’s use in fossil fuels is at 82% globally, the same as 25 years ago. However what result this to 75% in 2035?
Renewables (World Energy Outlook 2013)
