Causes
The effect that directly causes climate change
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
A consequence of climate change that is commonly conflated with climate change itself
What is global warming?
The greenhouse gas that has caused 70% of warming global temperatures over the past 250 years
What is carbon dioxide/C02?
The consequence that would disproportionately affect coastal regions with flooding
What is rising oceans/melting glaciers/polar ice caps?
The most potent greenhouse gas, one molecule of which is found in every 100 billion molecules in the atmosphere
The consequence of climate change that intensifies weather conditions in all regions
What is extreme weather/weather changes?
The greenhouse gas released by extracting natural gas, cows, and landfills
_____ becomes more challenging to produce from longer, more severe droughts caused by extreme weather
The greenhouse gas trapping the most total heat in the Earth's atmosphere
What is water vapor?
The health effects that an increase in smog from climate change include _______, _______, or _______
What is asthma, heart disease, or lung cancer?
The __________ loop between other greenhouse gases and water vapor that makes water vapor amplify temperature changes caused by other greenhouse gases
What is the feedback loop?