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Assignment Task: Class activity on temperature rise - one of the three pieces of evidence for global warming.
Review the lecture: Evidence Part 1: Global surface temperature increase By Dr. Minghui Diao and San Jose State University
1. What happened after 1800?
2. What are the fossil fuels?
3. The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated by a linear trend, show a warming of _____ °C [estimated to be between 0.65 and 1.06°C], over the period 1880 to 2012.
4. What is the IPCC report?
5. What is the warmest decade in the past 140 years? What is the warmest year in the past 1000 years?
6. Are they still the warmest times when we look at 1000 years?
7. What is the hockey stick figure describing?
8. The ______ region will be facing the most dramatic temperature increase in the prediction of 2090-2099!