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1 Is the Global Climate Really Changing? The View from Space Joe Piwowar Department of Geography

2 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Global Change Claims The Earth's temperature is rising. Sea levels are going up. Droughts are more common. Our weather is getting stormier. Change is just part of a natural cycle.

3 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Remote Sensing remote sensing –to sense (v) - to feel, measure, detect, perceive –remote (adj) - far away from a given place

4 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Remote Sensing You are here!

5 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar The Earth’s Temperature is Rising

6 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar The Earth’s Temperature is Rising

7 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar The Earth’s Temperature is Rising

8 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar The Earth’s Temperature is Rising

9 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Sea Levels Are Going Up

10 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Sea Levels Are Going Up

11 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Sea Levels Are Going Up

12 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Sea Levels Are Going Up

13 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Droughts are More Common

14 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Droughts are More Common

15 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Droughts are More Common

16 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Droughts are More Common

17 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Droughts are More Common

18 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Droughts are More Common

19 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Droughts are More Common

20 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Our Weather is Getting Stormier

21 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Our Weather is Getting Stormier

22 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar NASA Earth Observatory Our Weather is Getting Stormier

23 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Change is Just Part of a Natural Cycle

24 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar NASA Earth Observatory Change is Just Part of a Natural Cycle

25 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Change is Just Part of a Natural Cycle

26 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Change is Just Part of a Natural Cycle

27 Is the Global Climate Really Changing?Joe Piwowar Thank-you! Joe Piwowar Department of Geography joe.piwowar@uregina.ca www.uregina.ca/arts/coffeehouse

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