Terminology
This can refer to any significant shift in temperature, rainfall, wind, and other environmental factors that occur over decades or more.
What is climate change?
Two causes of rising sea levels are the rising water temperatures and this.
What are melting ice caps?
What are threats to human health?
Most of the warming discussed as part of "global warming" has taken place since this year.
What is 1970?
A theory by Jared Diamond that explains inequalities in the world today.
What is Geographic Luck Theory? (aka "GGS")
These gases trap heat in the atmosphere of the Earth.
What are greenhouse gases?
Fossil fuels were formed from intense heat and pressure on these buried deep within the earth's crust.
What are remains of plants and animals?
New coal-mining and oil-drilling techniques were created to meet Britain's ever-growing appetite for this.
What is energy?
Scientists use these to run simulations on climates changes of the past in order to attempt simulations of the future.
What are climate models?
He created the first Bank of the United States, with quite a bit of pushback.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What are fossil fuels?
Today, coal, oil, and natural gas make up about 80% of this.
What are global energy sources?
This silly term is sometimes used to replace the term "global warming" since there are so many effects that go beyond rising temperatures.
Who is "global weirding"?
These animals in particular have started disappearing from the coasts of Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, a phenomenon scientists attribute to rising water temperatures.
What are lobsters?
She was a former slave and the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This, along with carbon dioxide and water vapor, is an example of a greenhouse gas.
What is methane? or What is Nitrous oxide?
This process might make more flat farmland and open places to settle, but is also increasing greenhouse gases left in the atmosphere.
What is deforestation.
These may be a result of rising ocean temperatures increasing the amount of water that evaporates into the atmosphere.
What are extreme weather events?
Oceans are becoming increasingly more this due to its increased absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere.
What is acidic?
This was a period of economic turmoil in the US and around the world following the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
This is the term given to individuals who have been driven from their homes because of climate change.
What are climate change refugees?
This phenomenon is how scientists explain why an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere leads to an increase in global temperatures.
What is The Greenhouse Effect?
Plants and animals are shifting in these directions to escape the increasing temperatures caused by global warming.
What are North and South Poles?
Research shows that since 1880, Earth's surface temperature has risen this many degrees fahrenheit.
What is 1.4?
Also called the Progressive Party, Teddy Roosevelt ran for US president in 1912 on this third-party platform.
What is the Bull Moose Party?