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My Favorite Lecture - "Climate Change: Facts, Fiction, & Forecasts"

KHSU | By Mike Dronkers

Published March 1, 2017 at 5:20 PM PST

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Lecturer Rich Boone

KHSU

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Audience Q&A

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Oceanic depth temperature chart

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Cities to be impacted by rising seas

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Mean temperature for Eureka, California

National Weather Service

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Forecast

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Co2 parts per million measured at Mauna Loa in Hawaii

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Mean average temperature

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Dawn of the industrial oil age

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Global heat forecast

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The termination of the Younger Dryas cold event some 11.6k years ago was an abrupt climatic shift. In this record, from Central Greenland, it is manifested as a warming of around 15 °C, accompanied by a doubling in annual precipitation volume, occurring i"

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`Values next to incoming, outgoing, and reflected radiation arrows are for March 2000 to May 2004

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Roald Amundsen's Amundsen's Gjøa was the first known boat to travel through the Northwest Passage in 1903-1906."

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Crystal Serenity

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/crystal-serenity-luxury-cruise-arctic-northwest-passage/

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Global temperatures have not been stable over the long-term and rarely have been stable for more than 1000 yrs. We have been experiencing particularly stable global temperature for the past 1000 yrs, which is not characteristic of the planet.

What are we getting right when it comes to the science of climate change? What are we getting wrong? In this episode of My Favorite Lecture, Dr. Rich Boone takes you on a fact-based jaunt through one of today's most pressing issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hl9y6cJIeU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hl9y6cJIeU

Boone used some visual aids in this lecture, which you can peruse in the photo gallery above.

Boone's Suggested Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCVXnrQfzgA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCVXnrQfzgA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axsSexPoSR0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axsSexPoSR0

Baba Brinkman - Greenhouse (used by permission)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwiX6TgAdDQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwiX6TgAdDQ

My Favorite Lecture is a collaboration between Humboldt State University, Arcata Main Street, and KHSU. If you'd like to come to a live taping, Melinda Myers presents "That's So Gay?" on Thursday, March 9th.