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| 1896 Sebum Arrhenius : 1st person to come up with idea that increasing CO2 in the troposphere will result in warming of atmosphere |
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| Conflict of interest - discussion is out there about global warming |
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| International geophysical year - began to measure atmospheric content of Carbon Dioxide (ppm) |
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| Fire ice debate: is it going to first or cool first |
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| Two atmospheric scientists said that the ozone layer is depleting |
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| NAS - National acedemy of scientists - what would happened if CO2 were to dobule |
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- Average temperature would increase by 1.5 - 4.5 celsius
- Expectation was temperature rise would be 2 to 3 times in the artic
- Sea level would rise 1 to 1.5 meters (Thermal expansion of water/glacier melt) |
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| 1st study about feedbacks, positive feedback exceeds negative feedback - accerlates; IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was forms |
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Eart Summit In Rio; Biodiversity treaty
Convention on climate change
The more developed countries (MDC) responsibly would rollback/reduce their CO2 emissions for 2000 to 1990 levels |
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US, Japan & Germany claimed they wern't able to reach that goal
Global warming has begun |
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| Kyoto protocol - comes up with solutions - don't come back until LDCs |
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