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Lecture 13: Global warming and climate change 1. What is radiative forcing? What causes positive radiative forcing? What causes negative radiative forcing? 2. Are there any uncertainties associated with climate models? 3. What two general components of human activity most affect global warming? 4. W...

Lecture 13: Global warming and climate change 1. What is radiative forcing? What causes positive radiative forcing? What causes negative radiative forcing? 2. Are there any uncertainties associated with climate models? 3. What two general components of human activity most affect global warming? 4. What is the greenhouse effect? What are some greenhouse gasses? Who discovered it and when? Who first predicted that adding CO2 into the atmosphere would cause climate change? 5. What is the Paris Agreement? What does it try to ensure? 6. What is the physical evidence that the earth is warming (there are many pieces of evidence here)? 7. What is the physical evidence that humans are causing global warming? 8. What effects does increasing CO2 in the atmosphere have on the ocean? 9. What is the method used to obtain CO2 values for the atmosphere thousands of years ago? 10. What is the physical evidence that proves humans are responsible for the added CO2 in the atmosphere? 11. What two basic ways will humans be forced to deal with global climate change? 12. What are the two main causes of sea level rise due to global warming? 13. Fossil fuel use goes mainly toward producing what?