Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Historic Records
Tree Rings
Pollen Studies
Oxygen 18
Ice Cores
Holocene Climate
11,000 Younger Dryas Cooling
9,000-6,000 Mid-Holocene Warm Period (“Climatic Optimum”)
900-1300 AD – Medieval Warm Period
1300-1450 Little Ice Age I
1450-1550 Partial Recovery
1550-1800 Little Ice Age II
Possible Effects of Global
Warming
More Heat Extremes
Drought
Rise in Sea Level
Temporary Severe Cold Spell?
Rapid Migration of Ecological Zones
More Biomass but Lower Nutritional Value
Not a Bad Thing?
Stratosphere – Good
Absorbs solar ultraviolet
Troposphere – Bad
Toxic
Contributes to air pollution
Ozone Depletion
Cl stripped off synthetic molecules by solar ultraviolet
Cl reacts with ozone, acts as catalyst