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| Long term sustained change in the average global climate |
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| Natural Greenhouse effect |
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| The property of the Earth's atmosphere by which longwave heat rays from the Earth's surface are trapped or reflected back by the atmosphere |
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| Enhanced Greenhouse effect |
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| This results from human activities which increase the concentration of naturally occurring greenhouse gases and leads to global warming and climate change |
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| The increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air in the 20th and early 21st century and its projected continuation |
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| The point at which the damage caused to global systems by climate change becomes irreversible |
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| The heat energy from the sun consisting of the visible spectrum together with ultraviolet and infrared rays |
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| The balance between incoming solar radiation and outgoing terrestrial radiation |
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| The amount of solar energy received per unit area, per unit time on a surface at right angles to the sun’s beam at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere |
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| The heat energy that causes a change in temperature of a substance but does not contribute to a change in state |
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| The transfer of heat by contact |
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| The transfer of heat by the movement of a gas or a liquid |
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| The quantity of heat absorbed or released by a substance undergoing a change of state, such as water vapour condensing into water droplets |
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