1. Climate Change (and You) UF BCN 1582 August 29, 2006 Mark van Soestbergen ICBE

6. Carbon Dioxide Intercepts infrared waves going into space

7. Gasoline is 85.5% carbon 1 gallon of conventional gasoline becomes 172 cubic feet / 4.87 cubic meters of CO 2

8. Humans add about 25 billion tonne carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year

9. We are here Globally, temperatures are projected to rise an additional 2 – 5°C in the 21 st Century

10. Summer Arctic Sea Ice 1979 2000 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

11. Greenland is melting NY Times June 8, 2004

12. Summers will be scorchers These maps show the projected increase in average daily July heat index relative to the present. The largest increases are in the southeastern states, where the models projects increases of more than 25°F. A July day in Atlanta that now reaches 105°F would reach 115°F in the Hadley model, and 130°F in the Canadian model.

13. Fabian, Sep, 2003

14. The oceans have absorbed about 30 times more heat than the atmosphere since 1955

16. Expected sea level increase 21 st Century: + 1.2 meter Florida + 5 meter, unavoidable w/out action Courtesy: PBS

17. The atmosphere now holds 30% more carbon than a century ago. 8 4.7 Human emission rate in billion tC/yr time equilibrium Latent atmospheric Carbon is about 188 billion ton Earth absorption rate in billion tC/yr de-carbonization pathway

19. -Nice meeting all of you! this presentation can be downloaded from: www.icbe.com/about/uf/lectures/index.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene-Eocene_Thermal_Maximum Mark van Soestbergen mark@icbe.com mark@icbe.com 352 367 1144 tel 352 335 9140 fax Toward Climate Stability