Chapter 12: Climate: Making Sense and Making Money

Chapter 12: Climate: Making Sense and Making Money

The chapter opens with an explanation of carbon dioxide's affect of holding in the heat of the sun, making human life possible, but changing weather patterns and rapidly increasing the average temperature all over the world, setting heat records every year since 1983. Weather patterns change as the melting ice caps disturb ocean currents and reflect less heat than the ice, faster evaporation changes rain patterns, and rising ocean levels threaten coastal cities. Ice ages coming in mere decades can result from the disruption in ...