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GLOBE Carbon Cycle: The Carbon Cycle

GLOBE Carbon Cycle: The Carbon Cycle. University of New Hampshire: Jennifer Bourgeault, Rita Freuder, Lara Gengarelly, Mary Martin, Scott Ollinger, Sarah Sallade, Annette Schloss, Haley Wicklein

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GLOBE Carbon Cycle: The Carbon Cycle

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  1. GLOBE Carbon Cycle: The Carbon Cycle University of New Hampshire: Jennifer Bourgeault, Rita Freuder, Lara Gengarelly, Mary Martin, Scott Ollinger, Sarah Sallade, Annette Schloss, Haley Wicklein Czech Republic: Jana Albrechtova, Kateřina Čiháková, Zuzana Lhotakova, Barbora Semeráková, Premek Stych, Dana Votapkova   GLOBE Program Office: Gary Randolph

  2. Ask yourself this question: How do I interact with the Carbon Cycle? I eat food I drive a car I live in a house I plant trees I wear clothes I breathe I cut my grass

  3. If we want to understand anything about climate change we must learn about the most important atom – NPR Video Episode 1 : It's All About Carbon Episode 2

  4. Carbon: A building block of life • The most abundant element in living things • Accounts for 45-50% of the total mass of the biosphere. • Also present in the Earth’s, atmosphere, soil, oceans, and crust

  5. The Carbon Cycle

  6. The Greenhouse Effect Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas

  7. The Greenhouse Effect (continued)

  8. Changing Atmospheric Conditions http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ Level of Certainty: 100% AnnualIncrease

  9. Changing Atmospheric Conditions http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

  10. Changing Atmospheric Conditions Annual Global Chlorophyll Concentration – NASA Earth animation MODIS NDVI in Southern & Northern Hemisphere

  11. The Pulse of the Planet: Estimated Chlorophyll Concentration SeaWiFS Satellite Data January 1998

  12. The Pulse of the Planet: Estimated Chlorophyll Concentration SeaWiFS Satellite Data July 1998

  13. Atmospheric CO2 Over Geologic Time Scales Vostok Ice Core CO2 Record 420,000 years ago to the present CO2 concentration (ppmv)

  14. Atmospheric CO2 Over Geologic Time Scales Vostok Ice Core CO2 Record 420,000 years ago to the present 400 Present (2011) Ice Core Data Mauna Loa Record 350 Inter-Glacial Maximum Glacial Minimum 300 Atmospheric CO2 (ppm) 250 200 Barnola et al. 1999 150 400,000 300,000 200,000 100,000 0 Years Before Present

  15. Projected Increases in CO2 700 Projected (2100) 650 600 Vostok Record Vostok Record Mauna Loa Record IPCC IS92a Scenario IPCC IS92a Scenario 550 Law Dome Record Mauna Loa Record 500 450 Concentration (ppmv) 400 Current (2011) 350 2 CO 300 250 200 150 400,000 300,000 200,000 100,000 0 Understanding the future of atmospheric CO2 is Critical

  16. Temperature Changes Mirror Changes in CO2

  17. Video: How do we know? Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming

  18. “Planet Earth Has Entered a NEW Era That Has No Historical Precedent” Berrien Moore III Chairman International Global Biosphere Program Director Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space “The Earth’s Climate System is an Angry Beast and We are Poking it with Sticks” Wallace Broeker Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory

  19. Questions about the Carbon Cycle???

  20. Mauna Loa

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