the name for the oscillations in earth's orbital cycle configuration which caused climate change between ice ages and warm periods
What are milankovitch cycles
100
anticipate our harm to the environment and plan to lessen our own vulnerability
What is adaptation
100
When the atmosphere CO2 content is at 550 ppm, then the temperature will raise by
What is 3 degrees celsius by 2050
100
The three stages of skeptics
What are 1. Claim incorrect findings and attempt to prove it. 2. Claim that global warming is not a result of humanity. 3. Claim that it is too late to do anything
200
the boundary region where air shifts from cooling night and begins to warm.
What is tropopause
200
influence any particular factor has on the energy balance of the atmosphere- land- ocean system
What is radiative forcing
200
Likelihood of human cause according to the IPCC(percentage)
What is 95% certainty
200
these areas will warm the most
What are high latitudes and continental interiors
200
With sea level rise of one meter, this will be the number of refugees
What are tens of millions
300
bring day to day changes to our weather and move from west to east
What are convection currents
300
water vapor, co2, and other gases
What are GHGs
300
the response to climate change that involves taking action to reduce emissions
What is mitigation
300
This percentage of permafrost is predicted to melt
What is 90%
300
To reduce climate change, this is the range of GDP per year that must be spent on curbing it
What is 5-20% of the total GDP worldwide per year
400
"rivers of air" that flow at speeds of more than 300 mph and meander considerable
What is the jet stream
400
decrease in ocean pH do to the fact that it is absorbing all of our co2
What is ocean acidification
400
the third most important GHG
What is methane
400
with a warmer, diluted upper Atlantic, there will be a decrease in these
What what are thermohaline currents
400
To hold at 1-1.5 degrees celsius, the CO2 in PPM must be maintained at
What is 400-500 ppm
500
the boundaries where different temps and pressures meet
What are fronts
500
continent that burns the most carbon dioxide
What are Asia and pacific (38 percent compared to North America's 24 percent.)