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What makes the current global warming trend different from normal climate cycles of the past?
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∙ 8y ago
The difference is - the human race is accelerating the natural cycle of events, by deforestation, and burning fossil fuels.
Earlier changes in the climate took tens of thousands of years to happen. Global warming changes can be seen in a mere thirty years.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 9y agoWith the advent of global warming, the climate has drastically changed. This has resulted to an alarming rise in sea level (6. 7 inches) in the last decade due to melting glaciers. This rise is almost double that of the last century. Global temperatures have risen, and the acidity of surface waters in the ocean has continued to rise since the industrial revolution.
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∙ 13y agoAs the oceans warm, even ever so slightly, the quantity of water vapour in the air will increase greatly. The process of water evaporation is an energy intensive process, and these dynamics will be a major player in the results.
In the short run, one could expect heavier rainfall, or even heavier snowfall as this greater quantity of saturated air moves into colder regions. Bear in mind that the region of greatest evaporation would be equatorial, but the atmosphere transport mechanisms move this air to high latitude regions remote from the source.
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What is different about the current cycle of the Earth's temperature change?
- The Earth is warming faster than in previous natural cycles.
How many seasons are in Indian season cycle and what are the changes due to global warming?
India has season cycles - the monsoon season and the dry season. Global warming has affected India with an increase in climate disasters.
How is earths climate warming?
It isn't, really. Yes, the Earth has been warming, since the 1820's. Before that it was cooling, from the late 1600's, and before that it was warming. The world's climate goes in cycles; not only the annual cycles of winter and summer, but cycles hundreds, perhaps a thousand years long. A thousand years ago, the world was warmer than it is now! There were dairy farms on Greenland, and the Vikings called it "Greenland" because it was green. Lief Erikson discovered a land with grape vines which he called "Vinland" (Not big on innovative names, those Vikings). We've discovered Vinland; it's in Labrador, Canada. No grape vines.
Which one is bad climate change or global warming?
Neither is bad. They are natural cycles of warm-cool-warm-cool that have occurred on Earth for a billion years or more. Example: from 1948 to 1971, there was an awful, dangerous cooling cycle, and people thought they HAD to DO something to stop it. That is now laughable, as we are in a not-dangerous warming cycle.
How can global warming cause colder winters?
Global Warming may or may not cause colder winters. Global warming refers to a climate change whereas colder winters are yearly weather patterns. On average the Climate and the World is warming up. It is a fact that the average temperatures are hotter than twenty or even ten years ago. So, whether you blame it on humans or natural cycles, global warming is happening. However, the colder winters we have had the past few years are possibly imperfections in global warming and may end soon. Also, some places are affected differently at different times. For example, the East had record snowfall this past winter, but other places had record heat this past winter. So yearly weather patterns can sometimes cause colder winters.
What is different about the current cycle of temperature change?
It is warming faster than previous natural cycles.
Some scientists think that Earth goes through natural cycles of warming and cooling. What is different about the current cycle of the Earth's temperature change?
The Earth is warming faster than in previous natural cycles.
What is different about the current cycle of the Earth's temperature change?
- The Earth is warming faster than in previous natural cycles.
What does global warming tell us about the earth?
It tells us the climate is not a static condition, but has cycles of warming and cooling, drought and excess precipitation.
What best describes the current trend of Earth's warming?
It is warming more and very much faster than previous natural cycles
What describes the current trend of Earth's warming?
The Earth is warmer than in previous natural cycles.
How is the current trend of climate changes different from previous cycles?
The temperatures are much higher. This cycle has seen about 10 degrees of warming overall since it began ten thousand years ago. All but about a half a degree of this occurred before man started banging rocks.
Which best describes the current trend of earth warming?
it is warming more than the previous natural cycles (apex
What are the patterns of heating and cooling in the atmosphere?
the earth goes through natural cycles of heating and cooling (ice-age and warming.) the thing is that natural cycles take centuries to millennium while the current warming phase is happening over decades- hence the name of global warming.
How many seasons are in Indian season cycle and what are the changes due to global warming?
India has season cycles - the monsoon season and the dry season. Global warming has affected India with an increase in climate disasters.
Why don't global warming experts reference the Milankovitch cycles?
Because Milankovitch cycles cannot explain climate variability over the time scale that we're interested in predicting climate. Milankovitch cycles can explain large variations in climate over very long time scales, scales of thousands of years. Milankovitch cycles do not explain variability in climate on the scales of hundreds or tens of years. Variability at smaller time scales is driven by other factors, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas concentrations.
How is the current trend of climate change from previous cycles?
The temperatures are much higher. This cycle has seen about 10 degrees of warming overall since it began ten thousand years ago. All but about a half a degree of this occurred before man started banging rocks.
