Climate change and global warming Flashcards
1
Q
What do we use to find the data?
A
Satellites
Temperature records
Proxies
2
Q
What does IPCC stand for?
A
Inetrgovernmental Panel On Climate Change
3
Q
What are the natural climate change causes?
A
- Variation in the earth’s orbit around the sun
- The effect of plate tectonics and volcanoes on the climate
- Variation in the Sun’s total output
4
Q
Since when have human activities changed the composition of the atmosphere?
A
Pre-industrial era
5
Q
What is stopping the stabilization of atmospheric concentrations?
A
Constant emissions of CO2
6
Q
What are four effects of global warming?
A
- Climate change
- Raising the world sea level
- Variation of ecosystems
- Ocean current changes
