Terminology
This can refer to any significant shifts 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?
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?
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"?
This, along with carbon dioxide and water vapor, is an example of a greenhouse gas.
What is methane? 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?
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?