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Does it matter?
Martin Hedberg meteorologist
Swedish Weather Center
Weather (Precipitation, clouds, winds, humidity, temperature…)
Natures way of balancing forces in the atmosphere.
Climate
Climate: Statistics about the weather.
100 years
Climate change (Weather patterns, glaciers, sea level rise…)
When you put it in the perspective of a longer period of time you find it has
happened many times before.
Without
With
greenhouse gases:
+15
-18 degrees!
degrees!
- Climate change -
External causes
Solar activity
Earths orbit
Meteorites
Particles
(mostly a cooling effect)
CO2
how we affect the climate
There are more things than greenhouse gases that affect the climate
Climate change within 100 years:
About half an ice age, but on the
warm side
Year 2100?
Year 2000
Year 1900
Ice age
Temperature as a tool to measure climate change
Renewable energy