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The importance of longevity in a greenhouse gas as climate forcing
David Archer
University of Chicago
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Joseph Fourier Memoires d l’Academie Royale des Sciences de l’Institute de France VIIII, 570-604 (1827)
Joseph Fourier described the greenhouse effect in 1827
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(1-α) Isolar4 ε σ T
4earth
Sun Light Earth Light
Earth
Tearth = 259 K = -14° C = 6°F
Energy Balance of a Bare Rock
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(1-α) Isolar4
Earth
Atmosphere
I ,up atmosphere
I ,down atmosphere
I ,up ground
Boundary to Space
Tatm = 259 K
Tearth = 303 K = 86° F
A Planet with an Atmosphere
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John Tyndall, 1859
John Tyndall discovered that CO2, H2O, and CH4 aregreenhouse gases. O2 and N2 are not.
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CO O
Symmetric Stretch
Asymmetric Stretch Bend
CO O
CO OCO O
Resting State
No Resting Dipole IR Inactive
2349 cm-1 660 cm-1
CO2 is a greenhouse gas
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Earth’s outgoing infrared spectrum
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The band saturation effect
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Radiative Forcing goes as ln(CO2)
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Svante Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius calculated that doubling CO2 would warm the Earth by 4-6°C, in 1896
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The water vapor feedback
Temperature+
+Water Vapor
Concentration
Water Vapor Feedback
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The Runaway Greenhouse Effect
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Temperature+
+Ice Melts
Ice Albedo Feedbac
The ice albedo feedback
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David Keeling
David Keeling started measuring CO2 concentration in the atmosphere
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The biosphere breathes
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Various public predictions of detectable human-caused warming by year 2000
Charney report and others
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Only greenhouse gasforcing looks like therecent temperature rise.
Climate forcings
Crowley, 2000
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What about phenomenaundreamed-of?
The sun is good at pushing our climate buttons.
Clouds? Humidity?
“They blame CO2 because they can’t think of anything else.”
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A detective story
The Butler. Found holding a smoking gun next to the deceased. Forensics matches the gun with the bullets.
The Chauffer. In Kentucky for sister’s wedding. “Can’t think of any way he could have done it.”
To convict the Chauffer, we’d have to first unconvict the Butler.
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Ocean Invasion
Reaction with CaCO3
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Reaction with Igneous Rocks
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Century timescale peak
Millennial timescale tail
Airborne fraction of fossil fuel CO2
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IPCC 2001 and earlier Summaries for Policymakers
IPCC 2001 and earlier reports implied that global warming would last about a century.
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Everyone gets this wrong
Rutledge 2011
Ramanathan 2008
Shindell, 2012
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Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum Event 55 Myr Ago
A natural releaseof CO2, comparableto the potential fossil fuel release.
Warming, with a recovery that took100,000 years.
Zachos et al. 2001
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Long Tail Model Intercomparison Project LTMIP
D. Archer, M.l Eby, V. Brovkin, A. Ridgwell, L. Cao, U. Mikolajewicz, K. Caldeira, K. Matsumoto, G. Munhoven, A. Montenegro, Ann. Rev. Earth Sciences, 2009.
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Band saturation effect of IR absorbtion by CO2 emphasizes the tail
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CO2 + CO3= + H2O <--> 2 HCO3
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10 100 2000 M
CO2 uptake capacity is determined by CO3=
Seawater pH Chemistry
Concentration in seawater
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Atmosphere / Ocean Equilibrium
600 Gton C
1800 Gton C as CO3=
Gton C = 1015 g
We expect a partitioningof ~1:3 between air andocean
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Atmosphere / Ocean Equilibrium
Airborne Fraction of CO2 Slug
1000-2000Gton
4000-5000Gton
Archer 2005 22% 33%Lenton 2006 21-26% 34%CLIMBER 22% 35%Goodwin 2007 24-26% 40%Ridgwell 2007 31%
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Atmosphere / Ocean Equilibrium
Affected by:changes in circulation
biologyocean temperature
saturating the carbonate ion buffer
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Flakiness in ocean / atmosphereequilibrium
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Neutralization by CaCO3
CO2 + CaCO3 + H2O ==> Ca2+ + 2 HCO3-
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How long does it take?
Neutralization e-folding timescale
Archer 2005 5-8kyrLenton 2006 500 - 1000 yrRidgwell 2007 1-2 kyrTyrell 2007 2-3 kyr
Pulls the airborne fraction down to ~ 10%
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The Silicate Weathering CO2 Thermostat
CaSiO2 -> Ca2+ + SiO2
Ca2+ + CO3= -> CaCO3
Burial + Subduction
Weathering = function( CO2 )
CaCO3 + SiO2 -> CaSiO2 + CO2
Volcanic CO2 degassing
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CO2
>100,000 years
The Silicate Weathering CO2 Thermostat
Helps explain Carl Sagan’s “Faint Young Sun” paradox
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Time scale must be longer than this
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Sea Level
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Global Mean T, °C
Sea Level, m
Last GlacialMaximum20 kyr ago
Eocene40 Myr ago
Today
Pliocene3 Myr ago
IPCCForecast
Year 2100
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Methane
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Methane is about here
CO2 is here
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Methane is about here
CO2 is here
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Methane
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Methane
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Earth’s temperature response toradiative forcing
Climate sensitivity: T / RF
Time scale: 10 yrsUpper 100m
DeepOcean
RF
Thermal bufferof the deepocean: Time scale 1000 yrs
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Shindell, et al 2012
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CO2 vs. CH4
CO2 poses a “trap” for humanity, because of the time separation of the cause and the impacts, which will continue to worsen essentially forever. It’s like an ever-intensifying curse on our descendents, or planting a cancer.
The climate impacts from CH4 peak and subside within a human timescale.
“Good” cholesterol vs. “Bad” cholesterol?
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1 Trillion tons of C => 2 °C peak warming
Allen et al 2009
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1 Trillion tons of C
Already released: 1/2 trillion tons 0.3 from fuels 0.2 from deforestation
Costs (cuts / year) go up if we wait
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Fossil fuels are mostly coal
Coal
Oil
Gas
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ConclusionsNo one has a model or theory of climate that explains the present but predicts that global warming won’t happen and be significant.
The impacts of global warming from CO2 will last for millennia (not just a few centuries).
The impacts of short-lived greenhouse gases is attenuated by the slow response time of Earth’s temperature.
Lesson from the past: Sea level is 100x more sensitive to Earth’s temperature on thousand-plus year timescales than the forecast for the year 2100.
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