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Things that can cause a warmer earth:
- An increase in greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (from factories and people) and methane (from swamps and livestock), which trap solar energy (heat) in the Earth's atmosphere. Carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is an extra gas, over and above the normal carbon cycle.
- Deforestation. Trees/Plants absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. The oxygen is released and the carbon is stored. Forests also reflect more sunlight back into space then plowed fields or buildings.
- An increased use of materials with a high thermal mass, such as asphalt and concrete, which absorb heat from the Sun.
- An increase in the intensity of the Sun (solar flaresare a short term example).
- Changes in the orbit of the Earth around the Sun periodically bring the Earth closer to the Sun.
- Decreases in particulate pollution from anthropogenic (man-made, factories and vehicles) and natural sources (volcanoes) which allow more sunlight to reach the Earth's atmosphere.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoCoral Reefs dying from the warmer water temperature's this is an example :)
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∙ 8y agoCarbon dioxide, methane and other pollution into the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are making the earth warmer.
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∙ 13y agothe only responsibles are humans caused by motor vehicles, factories, chemical reactions and plastics that cannot be recycled.
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How does the green hose and the ozone layer effect climate change?
Ozone depletion causes global warming. It then causes climate change.
How a change in the earths orbit can affect the earths climate?
earths tempertures
How does temperature affect the climate?
The heat from the sun causes the surface of the earth to warm up and with the amount of green houses there are it causes the heat from the sun to trapped and that causes global warming.
What is the effect of a warming atmosphere due to certain gasses?
A warming atmosphere causes climate change. This means weather "events" like storms, floods, droughts etc will become more frequent and more severe.
How does global warming lead to depletion of the water table?
Global warming causes greater extremes of weather. Due to climate change water tables will be depleted as they evaporate off due to increased temperature in the area
What is global warming activity?
Global warming refers to the long term increase of the earths temperature. It is directly linked to climate change but is not an interchangeable term for it.
What is climate change global warming causing?
"Climate Change" and "Global Warming" are not the same, though related. Global Warming causes Climate Change. With Global Warming we understand the warming of the earth's global temperature. That warming has in turn an effect on the earth's global climate and on more localized climates (like the climate of England or Western US).
How does the green hose and the ozone layer effect climate change?
Ozone depletion causes global warming. It then causes climate change.
What causes warming of the climate?
Increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap more heat, causing warming.
Why is the term climate change used than global warming?
Global warming causes climate change. We now use the term climate change because it deals with all the many changes. Global warming is still happening and the warming is putting more energy into the atmosphere. This extra energy is changing the climate.
What causes catastrophic events to occur?
The climate of the earth and the earths atmosphere
Why is Carbon-Oxygen2 important for the earths atmosphere?
It is not, because the greenhouse affect causes global warming.
Is greenhouse effect is the other name of global warming?
Strictly speaking there is no other name for global warming."The whole earth heating up" might be another name.Global warming is causing climate change, so many people think they are both the same, so they say:"Climate change is another name for global warming", but they are not really the same.
What is a more accurate term for global warming?
The rise in temperature all over the world. This is not more accurate. It is the same way of saying it. Global warming causes climate change, but is not the same as climate change.
What are three possible causes of climate?
Global warming is causing climate change.Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) is causing global warming.Cutting down forests is causing global warming.
What effects will cliomate change have?
Global warming(climate change) happens when CO2 rises in the earths atmosphere trapping in heat from the sun like a greenhouse. This causes the poler ice caps to melt, the oceans to rise and flood all the world.
What is produced as the result of unequal warming the earths surface?
Wind. Uneven warming of the surface causes different air pressures in different places, so the air moves in an attempt to equalize the pressure difference.Earth's climate patterns are largely produced by the uneven heating of the planet by the Energy from the sun warms Earth's surface.
