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Understanding Global Warming: Impacts and Solutions

Explore the causes and effects of global warming, from atmospheric processes to climate change. Learn about greenhouse gases, feedback cycles, and ways to mitigate this urgent threat.

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Understanding Global Warming: Impacts and Solutions

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  1. Chapter 23 The Atmosphere, Climate, and Global Warming

  2. The Atmosphere • The thin layer of glass that envelops the Earth • Chemical reactions • Atmospheric circulation produces weather and climates

  3. Climate • Climate: • the representative or characteristic atmospheric conditions for a region on Earth • Microclimate • The climate of a very small local area • Urban Dust Dome • Polluted urban air produced by the combination of lingering air and abundance of particulates and other pollutants in the urban air mass

  4. Climatic Change • Major climatic changes have occurred during the past 2 million years • Appearances and retreats of glaciers • During the past 100 years, the mean global annual temperature ahs increased by .5 degrees Celsius

  5. Global Warming • A natural or human induced increase in the average global temperature of the atmosphere near the earth’s surface • 4 factors • Amount of sunlight Earth receives • Amount of sunlight Earth reflects • Retention of heat by atmosphere • Evaporation and condensation of water vapor

  6. Electromagnetic Radiation and Earth’s Energy Balance • Electromagnetic spectrum • The collection of all possible wavelengths of electromagnetic energy, considered a continuous range

  7. The Greenhouse Effect • Greenhouse Effect • The process of trapping heat in the atmosphere • Water vapor and several other gases warm the Earth’s atmosphere because they absorb and emit radiation • Greenhouse Gasses • Gasses that have a greenhouse effect • Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, CFCs

  8. Global Warming • Negative and Positive feedback cycles affect the atmosphere • Increase in emission of greenhouse gasses • Solar Forcing, Natural Cycles, Aerosols (global dimming), Volcanic Eruptions, El Nino

  9. Effects of Global Warming • Changes in climatic patterns • Rise in sea level • Changes in biosphere

  10. Adjustments to Global Warming • Mitigate warming through reduction of greenhouse gasses • Energy conservation • Alternative energy sources • Danger: rapid climatic change

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