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Lecture 12 Climate Change, part 1 The Age of Sustainable Development

12.1. The Greenhouse Effect Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2012.

Table 12.1. Greenhouse Gas Characteristics Lifetime in the atmosphere (years) 100-year Global Warming Potential (GWP) Percentage of 2000 emissions in CO2e Carbon dioxide 5–200 1 77% Methane 10 23 14% Nitrous Oxide 115 296 8% Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) 1–250 10,000 –12,000 0.50% Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) > 2,500 > 5,500 0.20% Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6) 3,200 22,200 1% Source: The Stern Review Report © Crown copyright 2006.

12.2. Keeling Curve of Atmosphere CO2 Concentration (1958-2013) Source: Scripps 2014.

12.3. CO2, CH4, and Temperature (450,000 years ago – Present) Source: Hansen, James E. 2005. “A Slippery Slope: How Much Global Warming Constitutes ‘Dangerous Anthropo-genic Interference’?” Climatic Change 68(3): 269–279.

12.4. Global Temperature Deviation Since 1850 Source: GISS/NASA.

12.5. Annual Global Emissions of CO2 (1965-2012) Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2014.

12.6. Temperature Increases and Potential Risks Source: Stern, Nicholas. 2006. The Stern Review Report: The Economics of Climate Change. © Crown copy-right 2006.

12.7. A Dry Region of the Sahel Desert EC/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie, Flickr, CC BY-ND 􀀀.􀀁.

12.8. Sea Level Rises Over Time Church, J.A., P.U. Clark, A. Cazenave, J.M. Gregory, S. Jevrejeva, A. Levermann, M.A. Merrifield, G.A. Milne, R.S. Nerem, P.D. Nunn, A.J. Payne, W.T. Pfeffer, D. Stammer, and A.S. Unnikrishnan, 2013: Sea Level Change. In Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York.

12.9. Ice Mass Changes in Greenland and the Antarctic (2002-2010) Source: Hansen, James, and Makiko Sato. 2012. “Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change.” In Climate Change: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects, ed. André Berger, Fedor Mesinger, and Djordjie Šijački, 21–48. Heidelberg: Springer.

12.10. Winter Rainfall during 1970-2010 Compared to 1900-2010 Average (millimeters) Source: NOAA.

12.11. Prospects for Drought (2080-2099) Cook et al. 2014. With kind permission from Springer Science and Business Media.

12.12. Projected Changes in Agricultural Productivity (2080) Source: Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Source: Cline, W. R. 2007. Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country. Washington D.C., USA: Peterson Institute. http://www.grida.no/graphicslib /detail/projected-agriculture-in-2080-due-to-climate-change_141b

12.13. Pathways of CO2 Emissions: Estimated CO2 emissions over the past three decades compared with the IS92, SRES and the RCPs Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature, Peters, Glen P., Robbie M. Andrew, Tom Boden, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Corinne Le Quéré, Gregg Marland et al. “The Challenge to Keep Global Warming Below 2 °C.” Copyright 2014.

12.14. Three Energy Transformations to Reduce GHGs in California by 2050 Source: Williams, James H., Andrew DeBenedictis, Rebecca Ghanadan, Amber Mahone, Jack Moore, William R. Morrow III, Snuller Price et al. 2012. “The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity.” Science 335(6064): 53–59. Reprinted with permission from AAAS.

12.15. World Solar Energy Potential Credit: Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal; Source NASA. 2008. “NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) Release 6.0 Data Set, Clear Sky Insolation Incident On A Horizontal Surface.” http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/natural-resource-solar-power-potential_b1d5#.