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A few more air pollutants of note: Lead VOC’s (volatile organic compounds) Particulates CFC’s (see ozone)
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As Wallace Broecker likes to say, the Earth's climate system is "an angry beast“Wallace Broecker and “one that we should not be poking with sticks.”
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http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm
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http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm
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http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm
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http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm
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http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm
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http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo101vc/Lecture19/sld005.htm
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Carbon dioxide and temperature – a ‘chicken and egg’ problem.
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Other historical indicators: reduction in sea ice; retreat of valley glaciers; earlier lake ice melt; warming of permafrost; etc.
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The ‘Keeling Curve”
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http://www.met-office.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/pubs/brochures/B2000/climate.html
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http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~davidc/ATMS211/Lecture3-slides-PDF.pdf
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source: http://www.bom.gov.au/ El Nino impacts?
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source: http://www.bom.gov.au/
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ENSO – El Nino Southern Oscillation
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source: http://www.bom.gov.au/
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ENSO – El Nino Southern Oscillation
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