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It normally takes thousands of years, for example, from the last Ice Age till now. However the recent global warming and climate change has been happening extremely fast, like in the past twenty or thirty years. The earth has never warmed up so fast before. This is why climate change is so dangerous!
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 10y agoNatural climate change during most of the Cenozoic has occurred over a hundred thousand year cycle known as the Milankovich Cycle. This has been earth's primary driver of climate for millions of years.
Any given year might be unusually warm or unusually cold. These natural variations are not considered to represent climate change. The smallest scale for change is about 5 years. If you have five above average years in a row, you can state that climate has changed. It could still change back, but for earth as a whole the 20th century represented a fairly steady pace of climate change, with the past three decades representing an unusually rapid rate of change.
Virtually all of earth's climate scientists expect this rate to continue, if not increase, due to human activity in terms of the liberation of fossil carbon into CO2.
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∙ 12y agoHumans have the ability to emit over thirty billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in one year. An unprecedented rate of change in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations inevitably means an unprecedented rate of increase in average global temperatures and, consequently, unprecedented climate change.
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∙ 11y agoClimates change slowly. Usually changes take hundreds of years, but now we are seeing changes in climate happening much more quickly, in twenty or thirty years.
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∙ 15y ago4 times a year, with the seasons.
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What is a climate change sceptic?
A climate change skeptic is someone who believes one of the following: a. That the climate of the Earth is not changing at an unusually rapid rate, or b. That the climate is changing but people are not responsible for this situation.
How do sea and land location affect climate?
Vegetation and land cover can affect climate. How? When the temperatures of the land increase, changing the climate.
Does Florida have winter storms?
Yes Florida does have winter storms but depending on the climate change. Climate change has a thing to do with temperature so, it has a big impact on are weather changing in Florida so the yes it could be possible that we could have other storms.
How plate tectonics affect climate?
by changing ocean circulation
How climate changes?
Climate is an average of weather over several years, at least twenty or thirty. Climate is always changing, but changes in the past have happened very slowly, over thousands of years. Humans have never been able to change the climate before, but now, since we began burning fossil fuels, we have added so much greenhouse gases to the atmosphere that the world is warming up. This global warming is causing climate change, because heat is energy, and the extra energy in the oceans and atmosphere is changing our weather substantially. Over the years the climate changes.
Why is the climate currently warming?
the climate is currently changing because of carbon dioxide trapping so much heat in the atmosphere
Why is Greenland melting so fast?
Climate change is the dominant reason why.
Is your climate in the US changing?
No :)
How can climate change affect migratory birds?
some birds use the weather condition and temperatue to know when to migrate, so if the climate is changing, they can get confused
What is a climate change sceptic?
A climate change skeptic is someone who believes one of the following: a. That the climate of the Earth is not changing at an unusually rapid rate, or b. That the climate is changing but people are not responsible for this situation.
Is the Texas climate changing?
The climate everywhere remains in a constant state of flux. It is always changing. It Texas, as across most of earth, the climate is currently changing substantially faster than by any strictly natural means.
Where is Climate Change?
Climate change is like everywhere because the climate is changing all around us,
What does a larger number of leaf stomata indicate about the growing climate of that plant?
A high concentration of of stomata indicates fast growth and that the plant lives in a wet climate.
What the term migration mean?
its when the seasons are changing and the animals are not used to that climate so they stalk up food and go some where else then when there old climate that there used to comes back they come out
What was the titular Inconvenient Truth in Al Gore's 2006 movie?
Climate change
Why the earth climate Changing?
The reason the climate is changing is because of global warming. Every time we breath out we are contributing to global warming because of the carbon dioxide in our breath.
How do sea and land location affect climate?
Vegetation and land cover can affect climate. How? When the temperatures of the land increase, changing the climate.
