Environmental Geography

Today we went over environmental geography information and I will just be copying my notes onto the blog.

-       Earth’s temperature has risen from 1.2 to 1.4 in the past century

-       Human activity is causing Global Warming (Climate Change)

-       Cars and factories and fossil fuels have been harmful since the Industrial Revolution

-       Wood, coal, gas, electricity, and oil are all sources of heating/fossil fuels/pollutants

-       Solar panels: renewable energy

-       Greenhouse Effect: sun hits surface and heats it and traps heat

-       Fossil fuels give of CDO causing GE in atmosphere (bad)

-       Coal powered factories pollute more than oil powered

-       Cow gas= pollutant

-       1998: warmest year in history/ 2005: 2^nd warmest

-       Arctic sea ice reduced by 10% in the last 30 years

-       Earth’s temperature could go up 10 degrees in the next century

-       10 out of the last 13 years have been 10 of the warmest years in history

-       Carbon Dioxide: 82%

-       Methane 10%

-       Nitrous Oxide 5%

-       Fluorinated Gases 3%

-       Ocean levels risen 6 inches

-       Earth loses 400 billion of ice

-       Climate change: long term change in earth’s overall temperature