Historic
records
records
These emissions are increasing and driving climate change
What are greenhouse gases?
These geologic records reflect climate variables
What are proxies?
Variables that determine mathematical solutions
What are parameters?
An ocean process that we are accelerating
What is sea level rise?
Another GHG that is not CO2 or methane, but contains a very common atmospheric atom
What is Nitrous oxide?
This greenhouse gas has reached atmospheric concentrations of around 410 ppm
What is CO2?
According to Mann et al (1999), current global average temperature is higher than any temperature in the last _____ years
What is 1,000?
The language used to compute future climate scenarios
What is math?
An ocean process that we are increasing
What is ocean acidification?
Another factor in global heating, makes up the acronym UHIE
What is Urban Heat Island Effect?
This has increased by over a degree C in the last century
What is global average temperature?
This geological climate phenomenon helps us understand possible future climate change
What is the PETM?
The arrangement of cells in a GCM
What is a grid?
Can change precipitation, acronym LULC change
What is Land Use Land Cover change?
Determines future climate change, makes up the acronym SSPs
What are Shared Socio-economic Pathways?
This partially masks global warming from GHGs
What are aerosols?
The PETM occurred about _____ million years ago.
What is 55?
Various greenhouse gas emissions pathways
Human effect that may trap significant amounts of outgoing longwave radiation
What are jet contrails?
The PETM is illustrated in _____ isotopes, among other climate proxies
What is carbon?