What is a proxy measurement

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You will use your Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast textbook and complete the problems listed below.

Page 149, #1 What is a proxy measurement? Describe two types of proxy measurements.

Page 149, #2 What is a climate forcing? Which ones are human in origin, and which ones are natural?

Page 149, #4 Why ideas the warming since 1970's the smoking gun for a human impact on climate?

Page 188, #2 Why is the discount rate an important factor in people's view of the economics of avoiding climate change?

Page 188, #3 How can danger limits for climate change be defined? What specific implications do they have for carbon emissions in the future?

Page 188, #4 Which can provide more carbon emission reduction in the next few decades, efficiency or alternative energy sources? What about to the year 2100?

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