Carbon Cycle
A time series recorded of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.
What is a Keeling curve?
(or What is the Mauna Loa carbon dioxide record?)
8 billion.
What is the current population of our planet?
The state of the atmosphere at a specific point in time. (You use this to guide what you should wear today.).
What is weather?
(when it's low in the atmosphere it is predominantly a pollutant)
What is ozone?
Raising bridges
What is one way coastal communities can increase how they fare with our future climate?
Trees, ocean life, Earth's crust
What are some pools in the carbon cycle?
Tobacco, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, and vanilla
What are agricultural crops from the New World?
Long-term (generally 30 or more years) patterns of atmospheric behavior (temperatures, precipitation patterns, etc.). (This is how you decide what clothes to keep in your closet).
What is climate?
Tree cores, ice cores, Kellen's lake sediments
What are some ways to measure the paleoclimate?
This process of stuffing carbon back down in the Earth may help curb the high levels presently in the atmosphere.
What is carbon sequestration?
In the northern hemisphere biological productivity drives down carbon dioxide in the summer
Why is the Mauna Loa carbon dioxide record (or Keeling curve) increasing and decreasing throughout the year?
A fossil fuel that initially powered the industrial revolution.
What is coal?
burning fossil fuels, clearing land
What are some ways humans have contributed to climate change?
Rising Carbon Dioxide
What manmade atmospheric feature is linked with warming on a time scale scientists don't think the world has ever seen?
Climigration and changing crops to name a few.
What are some ways people have adapted to climate change?
petroleum reserves and as carbonates in rocks
What are some ways carbon is stored in the solid earth?
Haber-Bosch process
What is the primary industrial method for producing ammonia or Nitrogen?
Time series data, ship logs, meteorological stations, field measurements, satellite estimates
What are some ways we measure climate change?
obliquity, precession and eccentricity
What are some astronomical features linked with long-term climate change in the Earth system?
This is something that most adaptation and geoengineering solutions require.
Money.
(or Resources.)
Measurement of the amount of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas equivalent a single person generates in a year.
What is a Carbon Footprint?
Skinny Puppy and Ministry
What are seminal industrial bands?
This selective warming by certain gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor and methane) keeps heat in the Earth's system.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Disease – Human – malaria, zika virus, dengue fever
Flooding
Droughts
How is climate change influencing USA?
What is terraforming.