59.2 Global Warming and Climate Change
59.2 Global Warming and Climate Change
- In most developed countries, energy is the largest component of land use.
- We need three Earths to get the resources we need.
- People in less developed countries use less resources.
- Pollution is thought to contribute to climate change on a global scale.
- The radiation is back to Earth.
- Predict how climate change will affect species distribution.
- The green human activities contribute to global warming.
- Life on Earth is dependent on the impact house effect.
- The current average is +15degC.
- Because of global warming, less than 1% of the total ocean currents and the circulation of the atmosphere are affected by water vapor.
- Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and colder winters can be experienced by the four most after water vapor.
- Ecologists are concerned that human activities will increase if they explore how Earth's atmosphere acts like a greenhouse, trapping heat inside.
- The elevation of the Earth's surface temperature is understood.
- Ecologists are better able to predict the effects of fossil fuels on the environment.
- Fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas are high in carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, and can be released into the atmosphere when burned.
- Changes in the distribution of species can be seen in the atmospheric concentrations of most greenhouse gases.
- The sun is higher in a greenhouse.
- An analysis of air trapped in glaciers shows that light can penetrate the glass and heat the plants inside.
- Since 1957, air samples have been collected from the Earth's warmed surface into the atmosphere at a relatively unpolluted site in Hawaii.
- Warming potential per unit of gas is relative absorption.
- The two hemispheres of Earth have different types of oscillations.
- The Southern Hemisphere has less land area than the Northern Hemisphere.
- The warming that ended the last Ice Age is comparable to this increase in temperature.
- Sea levels are affected by global warming due to the melting of glaciers.
- Sea levels are expected to rise by about 50 cm.
- It takes a long time for ice to melt.
- The increase melt has been caused by increases in the burning of fossil fuels.