Global Warming And Climate Change
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE = GLOBAL WARMING
In the last past years, the Earth has been experiencing increasing temperatures, leading to harmful consequences on our planet and its habitants. This has been researched and analysed, concluding to name such changes as Global climate change.
As explained by the US agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there are 7 indicators that would be expected to increase in a warming world, and 3 indicators would be expected to decrease.
Global Climate Change has been recognised as an increase in average global temperatures. Natural events and human activities are believed to be contributing to such temperature increasing changes. This has led to the development of what is now known as Global Warming.
Global warming has been proved as the increase of Earth´s average surface temperature due the effect of greenhouse gases.
Greenhouse Effect:
The greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms the Earth’s surface. When the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s atmosphere, some of it is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed and re-radiated by greenhouse gases.
Greenhouse gases include: water vapour carbon dioxide methane nitrous oxide ozone and some artificial chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
The absorbed energy warms the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth. This process maintains the Earth’s temperature at around 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it would otherwise be, allowing life on Earth to exist.
The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature on Earth as certain gases in the atmosphere trap energy.
Energy from the sun drives the earth’s weather and climate, and heats the earth’s surface.
In turn, the earth radiates energy back into space
Some atmospheric gases (water vapour, carbon dioxide, and other gases) trap some of the outgoing energy, retaining heat somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse
These gases are therefore known as greenhouse gases.
In the last past years, the Earth has been experiencing increasing temperatures, leading to harmful consequences on our planet and its habitants. This has been researched and analysed, concluding to name such changes as Global climate change.
As explained by the US agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there are 7 indicators that would be expected to increase in a warming world, and 3 indicators would be expected to decrease.
Global Climate Change has been recognised as an increase in average global temperatures. Natural events and human activities are believed to be contributing to such temperature increasing changes. This has led to the development of what is now known as Global Warming.
Global warming has been proved as the increase of Earth´s average surface temperature due the effect of greenhouse gases.
Greenhouse Effect:
The greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms the Earth’s surface. When the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s atmosphere, some of it is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed and re-radiated by greenhouse gases.
Greenhouse gases include: water vapour carbon dioxide methane nitrous oxide ozone and some artificial chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
The absorbed energy warms the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth. This process maintains the Earth’s temperature at around 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it would otherwise be, allowing life on Earth to exist.
The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature on Earth as certain gases in the atmosphere trap energy.
Energy from the sun drives the earth’s weather and climate, and heats the earth’s surface.
In turn, the earth radiates energy back into space
Some atmospheric gases (water vapour, carbon dioxide, and other gases) trap some of the outgoing energy, retaining heat somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse
These gases are therefore known as greenhouse gases.
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