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| What includes changes in the chemistry, biology and physical properties of the planet? |
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| What refers to changes in the climate of Earth? |
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| What aspect of global climate change refers to the warming of oceans, landmasses and atmosphere of Earth? |
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| What is largely composed of radiation in the ultraviolet and visible range? |
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| How much solar energy is reflected from the atmosphere? |
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| What is the remaining half of solar energy that is not reflected by the atmosphere? |
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| Much of it is ultraviolet radiation that is absorbed by the ozone layer and the remaining solar radiation penetrates the atmosphere to strike and and water. |
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| Where is radiation converted to infrared radiation and is emitted back into the atmosphere? |
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| What in the atmosphere absorbs the infrared radiation and emits some of it back toward Earth? |
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| What causes the planet to warm? |
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| The absorption and emission of infrared radiation by greenhouse gases. |
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What are the following:
Volcanoes
Decomposition
Digestion Under Low Oxygen Conditions
Denitrification Under Low Oxygen Conditions
Evaporation and Evapotranspiration of Water |
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| Natural Sources Of Greenhouse Gases |
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What are the following:
Burning of fossil fuels
Certain agricultural practices
Deforestation
Landfills
Industries |
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| Anthropegenic Sources of Greenhouse Gases |
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| What demonstrated that CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by nearly 30 percent? |
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| Measurements of CO2 during the past 50 years. |
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| What is the major source of CO2 emissions? |
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| Developed Countries and rapidly developing countries. |
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| What indicates that CO2 and temperatures have fluctuated widely over hundreds of thousands of years? |
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| Changes in CO2 are closely associated with changes in what? |
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| During what period have temperatures increased at an average of .8 C with northern latitudes experiencing increases of 1 C? |
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| What is complex because of positive and negative feedback loops? |
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| Predicting global warming and global climate change. |
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| What include warmer soils increasing their rates of decomposition? |
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| Positive Feedback Loops In Reference To Global Warming and Climate Change. |
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| What include plants being able to increase their growth under elevated CO2 environments? |
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| Negative Feedback Loops In Reference To Global Warming and Climate Change. |
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What are the following:
Melting of ice caps, glaciers and permafrost, rising sea levels, and changes the impact the lives of many species in nature. |
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| The Current Effects Of Global Warming |
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What are the following:
More Frequent Heat Waves
Rarer Cold Spells
Changes in Precipitation Pattens
Disrupted Ocean Currents
Effects On Human Health And Economics |
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| Future Impacts Of Global Warming |
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| What is an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases to a point approximately 5 percent less than the amount present in 1990? |
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