March 29th lecture Flashcards
1
Q
What does IPCC stand for?
A
– Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2
Q
What is the role of the IPCC?
A
The role of the IPCC is to assess the impact of climate change as well as ways to mitigate the effects of climate change
3
Q
What are the basic observations of global warming?
A
- Extreme weather is more common
- Surface temperature has risen
- snow cover has decreased in the northern hemisphere
- Arctic summer sea ice has decreased
- global avarge heat content has risen
- Global average sea level has risen
- Ice melting in the north
