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UCD Earth Sciences Institute with TCD TrinityHaus In conjunction with the TCD‐UCD Innovation Alliance Public Lecture Series Transforming Ireland Mobilising Innovation and Enterprise to Become a Prosperous Low Carbon Society Climate Change in Ireland - what's likely to happen? ESI SEMINAR # 6 30th April 2010 Fraser Mitchell, TCD Getting to grips with uncertainty ?
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UCD Earth Sciences Institute
with TCD TrinityHausIn conjunction with the TCD‐UCD Innovation Alliance Public Lecture Series
Transforming Ireland Mobilising Innovation and Enterprise to Become a Prosperous Low Carbon Society
Climate Change in Ireland - what's likely to happen?ESI SEMINAR # 630th April 2010
Fraser Mitchell, TCD
Getting to grips with uncertainty ?
IPCC Reports
Uncertainties and
controversies in climate
predictions
Past climates: the range of variation
Ice Age Earth
Ice Core Records
• Natural climate variation can be large
• Natural climate variation can be rapid
• Natural climate is rarely stable
Greenland Ice Core
Antarctic Ice Core
Marine Core
James Croll Milutin Milanković
Greenland Ice Core
Deglaciation Thermohaline circulation
The Little Ice Age
Net solar radiation at Mauna Loa Observatory, relative to
1958, showing the effects of major volcanic eruptions.
Sulphate anomalies in Greenland ice core
Earth has a very sensitive
climate system
Antarctic Ice Core
Fossil plants and palaeoatmospheres
Stomata (magnified
400 times)
NO
OF
ST
OM
AT
A
CONC. OF CO2
Picea glauca
Surface of 13,000 year old
Picea glauca leaf
stomata
Pine Ridge
Pond
Fossil plants and
paleoatmospheres
180 Million year old conifer
170 million year old conifer
Sawdonia ornata
(Lwr Devonian)
400 million year
old stomata
Royer et al (2004)
Jackson and Overpeck (2000)
UCD Earth Sciences Institute with TCD TrinityHausTransforming Ireland Seminar Series
In conjunction with the TCD‐UCD Innovation Alliance Public Lecture Series
With the support of Business in the Community Ireland and in collaboration with
Comhar Sustainable Development Council, Environmental Protection Agency, Geological
Survey of Ireland, Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland, Dublin City Council,
Met Éireann, Enterprise Ireland, Marine Institute and Teagasc
For Further details on the seminar series is available contact [email protected]
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