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Global Warming: Attribution,
who is to blame?
Ammad Baig
Urban Planner
ammadplanner@hotmail.com
Department of City & Regional Planning
University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore
Climate What is it?
 Climate? What is it?
 Weather  the day-to-day state of the
atmosphere. Includes state variables and
descriptive material such as cloud cover and
precipitation, etc.
 We can get this material instantaneously
Climate: What is it?
 Climate  Is the long-term or time mean
state of the earth-atmosphere system and the
state variables along with higher order
statistics. Also, we must describe extremes
and recurrence frequencies.
 In ‘English’: A long-term summary of what
has happened.
Climate and Climatology
 Climate can, therefore, be descriptive and tell
us something about, ‘what is possible’ in a
given region.
Climate Question
 When we discuss climate, what do we mean
by “long-term”?
 And, why did we pick such a time-period?
The Answer!
 The World Meteorological Organization
standard Climate averaging period is 30
years.
 Two reasons: A) This is long enough to
eliminate “year to year” variations in climate,
and B) it’s not too long relative to human life
spans!
Climate: What is it?
 Climatology is the study of climate in a mainly
descriptive and a statistical sense.
Climatologists study these issues, as well as
changes in climate.
 Climatology is, of course, a popular subject
today because of the concern over climate
change.
The Climate System / What is it?
 The Earth-Atmosphere system is an
integrated system of which the atmosphere is
only one part!
The Climate System
The earth-atmosphere system, courtesy of
Dr. Richard Rood.
(http://aoss.engin.umich.edu/class/aoss605
/lectures/)
The Climate System
 Each part of the climate system interacts with
the other.
 Each part generally evolves or changes more
slowly, the atmosphere is a “quick response”
system.
The Climate System
 We make two assumptions about the climate
system:
 That the energy that comes into the system
equals the energy going out, and
 That the mass within the system is conserved.
Global Warming: Attribution
 How do we identify humanity’s contribution to
climate?
 First, we know there is a strong correlation
between global temperature and CO2
concentration, ……
Global Warming: Attribution
 ……but on a VERY long time-scale (tens of
thousands of years)
 Graphic similar to this in “An Inconvenient Truth”
Global Warming: Attribution
 The rate of CO2 increase has been steady up
to the early 2000’s, although there is some
evidence it is dropping.
 “CO2 – rising”
Global Warming: Attribution
 We can “fingerprint” CO2 concentrations by
it’s mass (ratio of various isotopes) and there
is no doubt that some of the increase in CO2
is generated by humans (industry)
Model projections
Model Projections
 Climate models project an increase in global
temperature of 1.5o
– 12o
F by the year 2100.
 This has brought worries about:
 Increased heat waves
 Droughts
 Floods
 Hurricanes
 Storminess
 Habitat loss
 Etc…….
Global Warming: The case against?
 Volcanism – scientists have shown that
Volcanic forcing tends to cool climate, and
the last 150 years have been relatively quiet!
 IPCC is able to quantify these climatic
influences and estimate their error.
Climate Change: The case against?
 “Planet Climate model!”
Climate Change: Global warming
 Recently, humans have been thought to
contribute to climate change…. (Mann et al.
1998)
Global Warming
 Global warming as we use it here, means the
contribution of humankind to the increase in
carbon dioxide.
 Sometimes called the “greenhouse effect”,
but there is a natural “greenhouse effect”, so
we’ll save this term of “nature’s contribution”.
Global Warming
 Can humans impact the climate?
Global Warming
 The answer, I believe, is yes we can, but our
contribution is small.
 Global temperatures since 1860 have risen
0.6 – 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The margin of
error is 0 – 0.5 degrees.
 Maybe the temperatures have not risen?
(Only a small few doubt this)
Global Warming
 What keeps the planet warm?
 Greenhouse gasses, such as water vapour
and Carbon Dioxide trap heat in our
atmosphere. Without these, earth’s climate
would be darn cold!
Global Warming
 We understand the water cycle
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/.
Global Warming
 Water vapor is the most potent greenhouse
gas, many times more potent than Carbon
dioxide
 Water vapor is the real issue, but we don’t
understand what the future holds…..
Global Warming
 We don’t understand future water vapor
concentrations or the future distribution of
cloudiness.
 Nor do we understand completely the Carbon
Cycle! (But improvements are being made)
Recent Agreement
 Parties to the
U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) reached a landmark agreement on
December 12 in Paris, charting a fundamentally new
course in the two-decade-old global climate effort
 Reaffirm the goal of limiting global temperature increase
well below 2 degrees Celsius, while urging efforts to limit
the increase to 1.5 degrees
 Decrease the GHGs emissions
COP 22 is set for November 7-18, 2016, in Marrakech,
Morocco
What can we do about climate change?
 If you believe in a significant anthropogenic
component……..
 We can do plenty!
(conservation, and
Policy-wise)
What can we do about climate change?
 If you believe that nature is driving climate
change in large measure……..
 We can do nothing!
 However, I believe we need to be good
stewards
Let’s wrap it up
 Global warming
- Yes, climate is warming
- possibly humans are contributing, but to what degree?
- there are many things about the climate still not
understood.
- what should we do about it?
Global Warming: Attribution
 Either it might be
 Adaptation or Mitigation…?
 Let the commentary and discussion begin!
Global Warming: Attribution
 Let the commentary and discussion begin!
 Questions?
 Comments?
 Criticisms?
Global Warming: Attribution
Thank YOU
The End!

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Climate change presentation, department of city & regional planning uet lahore by ammad baig on earth day 2k16

  • 2. Global Warming: Attribution, who is to blame? Ammad Baig Urban Planner ammadplanner@hotmail.com Department of City & Regional Planning University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore
  • 3. Climate What is it?  Climate? What is it?  Weather  the day-to-day state of the atmosphere. Includes state variables and descriptive material such as cloud cover and precipitation, etc.  We can get this material instantaneously
  • 4. Climate: What is it?  Climate  Is the long-term or time mean state of the earth-atmosphere system and the state variables along with higher order statistics. Also, we must describe extremes and recurrence frequencies.  In ‘English’: A long-term summary of what has happened.
  • 5. Climate and Climatology  Climate can, therefore, be descriptive and tell us something about, ‘what is possible’ in a given region.
  • 6. Climate Question  When we discuss climate, what do we mean by “long-term”?  And, why did we pick such a time-period?
  • 7. The Answer!  The World Meteorological Organization standard Climate averaging period is 30 years.  Two reasons: A) This is long enough to eliminate “year to year” variations in climate, and B) it’s not too long relative to human life spans!
  • 8. Climate: What is it?  Climatology is the study of climate in a mainly descriptive and a statistical sense. Climatologists study these issues, as well as changes in climate.  Climatology is, of course, a popular subject today because of the concern over climate change.
  • 9. The Climate System / What is it?  The Earth-Atmosphere system is an integrated system of which the atmosphere is only one part!
  • 10. The Climate System The earth-atmosphere system, courtesy of Dr. Richard Rood. (http://aoss.engin.umich.edu/class/aoss605 /lectures/)
  • 11. The Climate System  Each part of the climate system interacts with the other.  Each part generally evolves or changes more slowly, the atmosphere is a “quick response” system.
  • 12. The Climate System  We make two assumptions about the climate system:  That the energy that comes into the system equals the energy going out, and  That the mass within the system is conserved.
  • 13. Global Warming: Attribution  How do we identify humanity’s contribution to climate?  First, we know there is a strong correlation between global temperature and CO2 concentration, ……
  • 14. Global Warming: Attribution  ……but on a VERY long time-scale (tens of thousands of years)  Graphic similar to this in “An Inconvenient Truth”
  • 15. Global Warming: Attribution  The rate of CO2 increase has been steady up to the early 2000’s, although there is some evidence it is dropping.  “CO2 – rising”
  • 16. Global Warming: Attribution  We can “fingerprint” CO2 concentrations by it’s mass (ratio of various isotopes) and there is no doubt that some of the increase in CO2 is generated by humans (industry)
  • 18. Model Projections  Climate models project an increase in global temperature of 1.5o – 12o F by the year 2100.  This has brought worries about:  Increased heat waves  Droughts  Floods  Hurricanes  Storminess  Habitat loss  Etc…….
  • 19. Global Warming: The case against?  Volcanism – scientists have shown that Volcanic forcing tends to cool climate, and the last 150 years have been relatively quiet!  IPCC is able to quantify these climatic influences and estimate their error.
  • 20. Climate Change: The case against?  “Planet Climate model!”
  • 21. Climate Change: Global warming  Recently, humans have been thought to contribute to climate change…. (Mann et al. 1998)
  • 22. Global Warming  Global warming as we use it here, means the contribution of humankind to the increase in carbon dioxide.  Sometimes called the “greenhouse effect”, but there is a natural “greenhouse effect”, so we’ll save this term of “nature’s contribution”.
  • 23. Global Warming  Can humans impact the climate?
  • 24. Global Warming  The answer, I believe, is yes we can, but our contribution is small.  Global temperatures since 1860 have risen 0.6 – 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The margin of error is 0 – 0.5 degrees.  Maybe the temperatures have not risen? (Only a small few doubt this)
  • 25. Global Warming  What keeps the planet warm?  Greenhouse gasses, such as water vapour and Carbon Dioxide trap heat in our atmosphere. Without these, earth’s climate would be darn cold!
  • 26. Global Warming  We understand the water cycle http://www.kidzone.ws/water/.
  • 27. Global Warming  Water vapor is the most potent greenhouse gas, many times more potent than Carbon dioxide  Water vapor is the real issue, but we don’t understand what the future holds…..
  • 28. Global Warming  We don’t understand future water vapor concentrations or the future distribution of cloudiness.  Nor do we understand completely the Carbon Cycle! (But improvements are being made)
  • 29.
  • 30. Recent Agreement  Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a landmark agreement on December 12 in Paris, charting a fundamentally new course in the two-decade-old global climate effort  Reaffirm the goal of limiting global temperature increase well below 2 degrees Celsius, while urging efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees  Decrease the GHGs emissions COP 22 is set for November 7-18, 2016, in Marrakech, Morocco
  • 31. What can we do about climate change?  If you believe in a significant anthropogenic component……..  We can do plenty! (conservation, and Policy-wise)
  • 32. What can we do about climate change?  If you believe that nature is driving climate change in large measure……..  We can do nothing!  However, I believe we need to be good stewards
  • 33. Let’s wrap it up  Global warming - Yes, climate is warming - possibly humans are contributing, but to what degree? - there are many things about the climate still not understood. - what should we do about it?
  • 34. Global Warming: Attribution  Either it might be  Adaptation or Mitigation…?  Let the commentary and discussion begin!
  • 35. Global Warming: Attribution  Let the commentary and discussion begin!  Questions?  Comments?  Criticisms?