Defining Climate Change

Climate Change Blog, 2011

Hello, this is my first post and the topic for discussion is climate change. This topic can further be broken down into sub topics such as: the negative implications of human industrialization in relation
to carbon dioxide emissions, the earth's trends of CO2 emissions from natural causes and the changes our planet is facing in regards to shifts in extreme weather patterns. The climate change debate has been a topical subject in recent years for many scientists as well as the general population because this issue is truly universal. Climate change is affecting the earth in many ways and as a result there has been a huge push to understand all of its implications. So what do you guys think, is climate change a natural phenomon or are we as a species directly impacting the levels of C02 in the atmosphere?

For more supplementary information regarding climate change please refer to the following links:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52KLGqDSAjo

3. (For UVic students)
Degrees of Change: Warming and the Stakes for Canada
This article by Linda Halsey and Dale Vitt provides great insight into some of the causes of warming and the increase in CO2 production due to human expansion and industrialization. Furthermore, the article discusses the shift towards trends in disequilibrium and the effects of increased mean global temperatures on the rates of sea ice melting and permafrost thawing.

4. (Also for UVic students)
I would also recommend checking out this article:
Climate change and forest fires
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V78-41GWN77-3&_user=1007916&_coverDate=11%2F15%2F2000&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050229&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1007916&md5=4f898632074113684096422c4324dcbc&searchtype=a

This article discusses the impacts of climate change on the increasing rates of wildfires in both the United States and Canada.