M7: Climate Change Flashcards

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One of the warmest years on record and indicate mounting risks of climate change.

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2020

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11% of all global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans is due to?

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Deforestation

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A United Nations body that analyzes climate change science.

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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Refers to the statistically significant changes in climate for a continuous period.

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Climate change

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5
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6 natural changes of climate change.

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Volcanic eruption
Orbital changes
Carbon Dioxide theory
Human activities
Global warming
Greenhouse gases

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6
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Can cause a cooling effect to the lithosphere that can block a certain percentage of solar
radiation because it emitted aerosol.

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Volcanic eruption

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As the earth travels through space around
the sun, cyclical variations in three elements of earth sun geometry combine to produce variations in the amount of solar energy that reaches earth.

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Orbital changes

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The excess heat in the atmosphere that has
caused the average global temperature to rise over time.

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Global warming

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Gases that absorb and emit radiant energy within the thermal infrared range, causing the greenhouse effect.

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Greenhouse gases

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10
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Example of greenhouse gases.

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Carbon dioxide
Methane
Nitrous oxide
Flourinated gases

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