Observed Climate Changes
Typical exam questions
- List and discuss three reasons why we have uncertainties in
long-term temperature measurements.
- Long-term temperature records
- We have direct measurements of temperature at many
places around the earth back to about 1850. Make a
rough graph (with appropriate scales) of the global
temperature change since 1850.
- What does your graph in part a (or your recollection of
global temperature trends) say about human-caused
global warming. Explain.