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Global Warming 17 in Miami, USA - For Students |
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
FOR STUDENTS
GLOBAL WARMING 17 IN MIAMI
Global Warming - defined by American Heritage Dictionaries as- 'an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere, especially a sustained increase sufficient to cause climatic change'.
Global warming, in other words, is a change in the earth's temperature that results in changes throughout the world. Meaning, temperatures are rising and with the rise we get environmental changes that affect all living things on the planet.
With keywords like thawing of permafrost, reflection of Kevin waves, man-induced climate forcing, and release of GHG, you think you will be snowed under by the millions of technical jargons from papers at GW17 ( http://www.globalwarming.net/gw17/regcode.php?code=GWSTUD or http://www.globalwarming.net/register ).
Don't worry! - the GW17 plenary session is tailored to the understanding of the meaning of global warming, and its relevance to everyday life, as well as what is good and bad about global warming.
Did you know that our oceans (the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans) have gotten warmer since the 1940s? If you think of the oceans as a gigantic fish tank, it would take a lot of energy and heat to make the entire tank warmer. Previously, scientists measured only the top layer of the ocean but didn't realize that in fact, the entire volume of water (or the entire fish tank) was getting hotter. Eventually, the oceans have so much energy that they have to give off some of that energy in the form of hurricanes, tsunamis and the phenomenon most commonly known as El Niño along the Pacific coast line.
Some actual technical jargon: "The oceans of the world have gotten warmer since the 1940s. Furthermore, it has done so from the surface down towards the bottom of the three oceans, introducing the dimension of depth, something that was not previously actively considered when measuring ocean temperatures. Now the larger driver of the new climate oscillation is the heat we put into the oceans of the world. The world's increasing ocean temperatures have spawned ever-stronger ocean waves over the past 40 years. This energy increases as the ocean's temperature rises, so the energy content of the tsunamis, hurricanes and typhoons also rises," said Sinyan Shen, President of the GWIC.
"In the largest Pacific Ocean , persistent El Niño is a way to discharge the heat content build-up. So we sometimes call the larger oscillation: El Niño-like climate change."
The conference encourages student participation both to educate and to inspire future scientists in this crucial field. If you would like more information for your class, please email us at gw17@globalwarming.net.
Special Student rate registration: http://www.globalwarming.net/gw17/regcode.php?code=GWSTUD
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