Climate change
- Created by: scottcombes4
- Created on: 07-12-14 15:36
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- Climate Change
- Evidence
- Long-term
- Pollen analysis
- Ice cores
- Sea level change
- Medium-term
- Historical records
- Tree rings
- Retreating glaciers
- Short-term
- Weather records
- Polar ice melt
- Ecosystems change
- Long-term
- Causes
- Natural without human influence
- Variations in earths orbit
- Tilt
- Variations in solar output
- Inconsistent energy output
- Darker sunspots than others
- Meteor/ateroid Impacts
- Volcanic eruptions
- Variations in earths orbit
- Human activity
- Enhanced greenhouse gas emissions
- CO2, methane, ozone and water vapour
- Destruction of natural CO2 sinks
- Organic matter
- Ocean sinks-CO2 dissolved in oceans
- Enhanced greenhouse gas emissions
- Natural without human influence
- Sea level changes
- Eustatic
- Tectonic movements
- Changes in climate
- Isostatic
- Compression or Decopression
- Accumilation or melting of Ice sheets
- Tectonic
- Uplift or depression around mostly plate boundaries
- Subsistence
- Abstraction of groundwater
- Compression or Decopression
- Sea level rise impacts
- Changes in the coastline
- Bangladesh
- Submergence of low lying islands
- Maldives
- More frequent/severe coastal flooding
- St. Marks square, Venice
- Changes in the coastline
- Eustatic
- Adaption Strategies
- Lifestyle Adaptions
- Improved risk assessment
- Flood adaptions
- Water resource managment
- Community awareness
- Mitigation Strategies
- Carbon tax
- Changing the energy mix
- Modified agricultural practiises
- Emission-cutting technologies
- Energy conservation
- Waste strategies
- Tree planting
- Carbon off-setting
- Evidence
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