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Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Ice Sheet Area Change and Sea Level Rise

Explore the relationship between trace gases, ice sheet area change, and sea level rise in response to climate change. Learn how Vostok temperature change and Milankovitch theory contribute to these phenomena and the role of greenhouse gases. Understand the dynamics of CO2 absorption by the ocean and its impact on atmospheric pressure. Discover the implications of fossil fuel emission cuts on Arctic warming and the Plio-Pleistocene climate whipshaw. Dive into the intricate workings of Earth's spin axis tilt, precession, and eccentricity variations in influencing annual insolation.

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Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Ice Sheet Area Change and Sea Level Rise

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  1. Climate change and trace gases James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha, Gary Russell, David W Lea and Mark Siddall

  2. Sea-level change yields an estimate of ice sheet area change. Vostok temperature change divided by 2 5 kyr timing gap between forcing and response

  3. Milankovitch (1941) theory of the ice ages Spring & GHG We expect the rate of sea-level rise to be maximum when NH spring insolation peaks.

  4. diverge gradually increasing slower falling below most scenarios, but only slightly.

  5. A substantial part of the CO2 is taken up by the ocean quickly. But the CO2 added to the ocean, in effect, exerts a back pressure on the atmosphere that prevents all of the addedCO2 from being absorbed by the ocean until someCO2 is buried in ocean sediments, which requires a very long time.

  6. 20, 100 and 500 years 1/4 60% (C) 0.04, 0.17 and 0.67 90% (d) 0.15, 0.18 and 0.24 sustained cut of fossil fuel BC emissions of 50%

  7. the Arctic warming due to these pollutants exceeds the Arctic warming due to CO2.

  8. Figure 10a shows growth of the climate whipsaw during the Plio-Pleistocene.

  9. Changing tilt of the Earth’s spin axis, with its predominant 41 kyr frequency, principally determines annual insolation variation versus latitude (figure 10b). The 41 kyr variations are increasingly large, in absolute and relative insolation, towards the pole.

  10. precession (thus the season when the Earth is closest to the Sun) becomes more important, with its predominant 23 kyr frequency. Thus, ca 100 kyr eccentricity variations come into play along with precession. Figure 10c shows insolation forcing at the latitude of the Laurentide ice sheet (60 N), exhibiting both the 23 and 100 kyr frequencies.

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