Human And Natural Climate Change π Flashcards
1
Q
True or False
A
- Humans can be blamed because of factories and cars : False.
- The cycle follows a cycle of warming and cooling : True.
- Climate change can be stopped : True it canβt be stopped but can be reduced.
2
Q
Greenhouse Gases and their sources
A
- Carbon dioxide : created from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) and deforestation.
- Methane : sources form has pipeline leaks, farming rise in payday field and cattle farming.
- Nitrous acid : made from jet aircraft engines, cars, lorries, fertilisers and sewage farms.
- Halocarbons : used in industry, solvents and cooling equipments.
3
Q
What is happening to our planet
A
- 2015 was the warmest year recorded.
- Fossil fuels release carbon dioxide.
- Climate change : flooding, rise in water level, storms.
- If humans didnβt exist we would be near ice age.
- Ice sheets huge Greenland, 3x bigger than Texas.
- Glaciers could vanish.