Earth’s history
The main variable that can explain the residual variation of historic temperature that the variation of solar energy cannot explain.
What is CO2?
The largest buffer system for absorbing heat on planet Earth
What is the ocean?
This is an administrative function for establishing a framework that enables communities to reduce
vulnerability to hazards and effectively respond to, cope and recover from disasters
What is Emergency Management?
An increase in this atmospheric substance, which has been stable for millions of years, is
causing rapid warming of the Earth.
What is carbon dioxide?
it is the most important factor affecting the climate
What is CO2?
The age of the earth
What is 4.6 billion years?
The warmest fully recorded year for sea surface temperature
What is 2023?
Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery are the four phases in this cycle
What is the Disaster Life Cycle?
An increase in the average temperature by this many degrees can lead to significant polar
ice melt and rising sea levels.
What is 2 degrees Celsius?
it absorbs 90 % of human-induced climate change and is getting warmer in an unexpectedly high rate
what is the ocean?
The distance (in millimetres)of the last 200 years after converting 4.6 billion years into 4.6 kilometres.
What is 0.2 millimeters?
The percentage of human-induced heat that the oceans absorb
What is 90%?
The argument for why there are no such thing as natural disaster
What are Human decisions and choices?
Small temperature increases can lead to larger and more dangerous versions of these weather events, including hurricanes, floods and droughts.
What are extreme weather events?
the term of making society and nature resilient to climate change, a process that is unavoidable. The reason to do it is to be ready for a warmer climate and to feel better by taking action to the many effects that are unavoidable.
what is climate adaption?
The length of the cycle (in years) in which the north pole tips back and forth in its angle relative to the sun
What is 41 thousand years?
The percentage of the amazon rainforest that has been cutdown.
What is 17%?
One of the four phases of the Disaster Life Cycle that requires the actions to “prevent or
reduce the impacts of hazard”
What is Mitigation?
One of the effects of global warming that impacts marine ecosystems and threatens biodiversity, especially coral reefs.
What is ocean acidification?
t’s a term for adaptation to a different climate that doesn’t work as intended but also that backfires and makes people worse off and more vulnerable. It
undermines the opportunity to adapt in the future. Politicians must understand this term, the consequences, the diversity of examples of it, and what the problems are
what is maladaption?
A surface’s ability to reflect light.
What is albedo?
Remaining carbon budget (inGtCO2) to avoid a 50% risk of arriving at a 1.5-degree increase of global temperature.
What is 200GtCO2?
The two problems brought up by Samantha Montano regarding Emergency Management in relationship to Hazard Mitigation
What are 1. mitigating climate change and 2. managing the consequences of climate change
This planetary phenomenon causes some regions to get warmer while others experience colder winters, despite global warming.
What is jet stream disruption?
a framework that defines processes that keep the planets health intact, guiding us where the limits are and what to protect to have a planet that can absorb enough CO2 and to not cross any tipping points.
What is the framework of planetary boundaries?