Conceptualizing Climate Change in the Past and Present
The "new" era we live in today that suggests that the climate change we are experiencing at present is so significant that it is comparable to epochs of very substantial climate change in the past.
the Anthropocene
Another name for the Late Holocene
Meghalayan Stage/Age
Who are the two people who first coined the term "Anthropocene" in the 2000s?
Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer
Traveled to Washington D.C to alert National Academy of Sciences that increasing CO2 levels=serious consequences
Bert Bolin
Pushes climate change to the point of no return
Tipping Point (positive feedbacks)
A period of cooler global temperatures, on average, from around 1300 to 1850 ce.
The Little Ice Age (LIA)
The book that demonstrated how commercial pesticides destroyed living organisms.
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
An international treaty in 1997 in which nations committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Kyoto protocol
The argument that climate sets the course for human history
Climate Determinism
Volcanic forcings and periods of lower solar activity identified by a lack of sunspots
Solar Minima
The rise of human population and activity
The Great Acceleration
A graph showing the ever-increased leavings of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Hint: from Keeling's initial records
The Keeling Curve
Intervals where Earth completes different cycles of energy (and receives more/less solar energy in different places)
The Milankovitch Cycle
The concept that external conditions validated authority of the current ruler
The Mandate of Heaven
Argued that atmospheric water vapor and carbon dioxide could interact with solar rays to raise the Earth’s temperature
Eunice Newton Foote
The idea that individual people can reduce their own fossil fuel emissions
Carbon footprint
Something observable in nature that gives an indication of past climate conditions
Proxy
The "mark" that coincidentally began with the start of he Middle Holocene Epoch
The collapse of the glacial Laurentide Ice Sheet in Canada
The Triple Planetary Crisis
Climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss
An international agreement that aimed to combat climate change
"Put U.S at economic disadvantage"
Paris Agreement