Summary on Friday Lecture

I am doing a summary on the first guest lecturer Prof Liong from the Tropical Marine Science Institute.

To kick start the talk, he did a quick introduction of the aspect of global warming by defining important terms like climate, climate change and the greenhouse effect. Following by presenting graphical evidence of graphs and charts that pointed out the huge contributor of the harmful green house gases are from human activities.Not forgetting to show the effects/scenarios (fossil fuel intensive ) if no measure are done to mend the harm humans have done to Earth.

Going into the main topic, he introduced the IPCC( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) an organization that was set up to monitor and do researches on the global climate. Telling us about the GCM( Global Climate Model ), how a volume of earth is broken up into different part and readings were taken and analyst. Being a small dot on the map, the GCM could not cater to our country needs, therefore the TMSI was set up by the government to monitor the climate in the region of south-east asia. GCMs are further down size to RCM which give higher resolution and are able to simulate precipitation to a larger accuracy.

The lecture was very informative and give us a very good explanation/introduction to the Climate topic which we are to cover this semester. It was strategic to place this lecture first as the next lecturer covers more on the aspect of methods/actions that can be taken by government and us individuals to play our part against climate change.