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  Quiz 1          In climate science what does Albedo mean? 2          Glasgow was C.O.P 26. What does C.O.P mean? 3          Where in Europe was C.O.P 21 held? 4          What is the UN body for climate change? 5          What is the “hockey stick” regarding global temperatures? 6          What does the Keeling Curve measure? 7          Approximately what did the Keeling Curve read in 2020? 8          In 2022 what is the global temperature increase since 1880? 9          Do the Milancovitch Cycles measure Axial Tilt? T/F. 10       Name 2 Hollywood stars, one male and one female, who’v...

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  Video Galleries Due to large file sizes, videos on our website are linked to YouTube.  In time new videos may be uploaded to this blog. See below. Videos of construction and village life Videos on climate change and related topics. Building work viewed from drone.

NASA  Global warming from 1880 2021  

  The latest IPCC report summarized.

  Global warming, or climate change, isn't a future scenario but at our doorstep. Now. Witness the extreme weather events in recent years if you care to doubt it. Yet global temperatures are only nudging 1.01 degrees post industrial, and the battle continues to keep it under 1.5 degrees.  Imagine the impact of another 0.5 of a degree and the future doesn't look pretty. Increase to above 2 degrees, and to paraphrase 17th century English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, and his statement that "life would be nasty, brutish and short ".  This is hardly the legacy we want to leave to our children, their peers and their offspring. The alarm bells have been ringing at several COP conferences and the IPCC and climate experts are not crying "wolf" but outlining their scientific findings in very measured ways.  See NASA Climate Time Visualisations here .  See above NASA link for interactive galleries. Carbon Dioxide In 2013 I did a climate change MOOCs course at the Unive...

  Link to the above course topics Making Sense of Climate Science Denial

  What is a climate refugee? January 25, 2020 This is an assignment I did for a MOOCs course run by the University of Melbourne in 2013. It in many ways echoes the present so I want to add it to my blogs. I worked hard but got 95% for my efforts. Getting a graphics to fit from my PDF file was difficult.  What is a climate refugee? Refugees have been traditionally thought of as stateless people fleeing from wars and persecution. Forced Migration is a related term that was used in a recent report by the Environmental Justice Foundation 1  on the impact of climate change in Bangladesh. Indeed this report is a good start to learning about the impacts of global warming on the most vulnerable of communities in the Indian subcontinent. Whether climate refugees or forced migrants we are talking fundamentally about survival, not a better life but almost any life at all, and the likely permanent displacement of people from their homes, communities, and nations due to rising seas. I...

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