1. Global Climate Change for the Developing World http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/sladoch/g312/geog.htm

2. THE EARTH SYSTEM ATMOSPHERE HYDROSPHERE CRYOSPHERE GEOSPHERE BIOSPHERE

3. THE CLIMATE SYSTEM

4. CLIMATE VERSUS WEATHER Choose which one hurts less.

5. How Big Is Climate?

6. Temporal Aspects of Climate: Climate Variability Climate Change

8. LA Civic Center (USC Campus) Annual Mean Temperature (1878-2007) Data: NOAA NWS (Los Angeles/Oxnard) Bill Patzert/JPL Year Degrees F

9. CA Warming Due To: Land Use (60%) Greenhouse Gas Warming (40%) California Temperature Changes (°F) 1950 - 2000 331 Met. Stations

10. California’s Extreme Makeover

11. CLIMATE AND SOCIETY Climate As a Resource Climate As a Hazard

12. BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

13. CARBON CYCLE

14. “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke

15. Tide Gauge Observations Average Rate ~ 1.8 mm/year 0.8 mm/year 2.0 mm/year 3.2 mm/year [Church and White, 2006] ~ 8 inches (20 cm) = 16,000 cubic miles!!! (67,000 cubic km)

16. Malibu’s “sandbagged” Broad Beach. The once-wide sand strip, swept away by waves and rising seas. Sea Level Rise

17. WHAT CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE?

19. Very well. Give the heretic back his research funding. OK! I believe mankind causes global Warming!

20. To overturn the world economy based on the musings of a few idiot leftist scientists is just stupid, that’s what Global Warming is all about. -Rush Limbaugh-

21. Global Warming Guaranteed