Topic 1e - Climate change and the Anthropocene

Elevated CO2 over parts of Western Europe

This data from 2003-2005 is data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard Envisat, and was the first time scientists detected regionally elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Temperature records of the past 1000 years (Hockey stick graph)

Green dots show the 30-year average from the PAGES (Past Global Changes) 2k project reconstruction. The red curve shows the global mean temperature, according HadCUT4 data from 1850 onwards. In blue is the original hockey stick of Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1999 ) with its uncertainty range (light blue).

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