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Global Climate Change for the
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THE EARTH SYSTEM
ATMOSPHERE
HYDROSPHERE
CRYOSPHERE
GEOSPHERE
BIOSPHERE
THE CLIMATE SYSTEM
CLIMATE VERSUS WEATHER
Choose which one hurts less.
How Big Is Climate?
Temporal Aspects of
Climate:
Climate Variability
Climate Change
Los Angeles Civic Center (USC Campus)
Average Annual Temperature (1878-2007)
TEMP
70
Yr Avg-10
10-Yr Avg
Degrees F
68
'83
Linear(TEMP
Trend
)Linear
'31
66
64
'97
'59
'05
'85
62
'75
'44
60
58
2006
2002
1998
1994
1990
1986
1982
1978
1974
1970
1966
1962
1958
Data: NOAA NWS (Los Angeles/Oxnard)
LA's HEATING UP!!
1954
Year
1950
1946
1942
1938
1934
1930
1926
1922
1918
1914
1910
1906
1902
1898
1894
1890
1886
1882
1878
'94
LA Civic Center (USC Campus)
Annual Mean Temperature (1878-2007)
70
'83
TEMP
Degrees F
68
'97
'59
Year Avg 01
'07
'31
66
'85
64
62
'44
60
'75
LA's HEATING UP!!
'94
18
78
18
83
18
88
18
93
18
98
19
03
19
08
19
13
19
18
19
23
19
28
19
33
19
38
19
43
19
48
19
53
19
58
19
63
19
68
19
73
19
78
19
83
19
88
19
93
19
98
20
03
58
Data: NOAA NWS (Los Angeles/Oxnard)
Year
Bill Patzert/JPL
California
Temperature
Changes (°F)
1950 - 2000
331 Met. Stations
CA Warming Due To:
• Land Use (60%)
• Greenhouse Gas
Warming (40%)
California’s Extreme Makeover
CLIMATE AND SOCIETY
Climate As a Resource
Climate As a Hazard
BIOGEOCHEMICAL
CYCLES
CARBON CYCLE
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it
is quite clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke
Tide Gauge Observations
150
3.2 mm/year
100
2.0 mm/year
MSL (mm)
50
~ 8 inches
(20 cm)
0.8 mm/year
0
= 16,000 cubic miles!!!
-50
Average Rate
~ 1.8 mm/year
(67,000
cubic
km)
-100
1880
1900
1920
1940
Year
1960
1980
2000
[Church and White, 2006]
Sea Level Rise
Malibu’s “sandbagged” Broad Beach.
The once-wide sand strip, swept away
by waves and rising seas.
WHAT CAUSES CLIMATE
CHANGE?
OK! I believe mankind
causes global
Warming!
Very well. Give the
heretic back his
research funding.
To overturn the world economy based on the
musings of a few idiot leftist scientists is just
stupid, that’s what Global Warming is all about.
-Rush Limbaugh-
Global Warming Guaranteed