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Global temp 140 years
IPCC Summary for Policymakers 2001
Sea Levels are rising … (IPCC TS2001)
N Hemisphere temp past 1000 years
IPCC S/PM 2001
Simple Greenhouse analogy
G/house gas and aerosol buildup
• Rise of global Greenhouse gases with industrial era
• Rise of industrial sulphate aerosols, appears to have peaked for Greenland record.
(b) Sulphate aerosols deposited in Greenland ice
IPCC S/PM 2001
Solar variation from 1600N HemisphereTemp record
Reconstructions of total solar irradiance
IPCC 2001 Ch 6.11
Global mean forcing 2000 vs 1750
IPCC S/PM 2001
Simulated annual global mean surface temperatures
IPCC S/PM 2001
The global climate of the 21st century
IPCC S/PM 2001
Observed and projected changes in extreme weather and climate events.
IPCC S/PM 2001
Vostok ice cores from Antarctica
IPCC 2001 Ch 2.4
Ice and ocean cores
IPCC 2001 Ch 2.4
Some Key Sources of Info for this module
• Website http://go.warwick.ac.uk/px272– Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – third report
2001
– Global Warming, J Horton, Rep Prog Phys June 2005 (review article) – copies to circulate?
– Notes
– Assignments
• Global Warming, J Horton, CUP 2004• Assignments weekly.
– Assessed.
– First due next thursday lecture.