CLIMATE CHANGE

Refer to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

• Global Warming

• Greenhouse Effect

• Climate Change

• Greenhouse Gases

The main gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor (which all occur naturally), and fluorinated gases ( which are synthetic).

• Greenhouse Effect

• Greenhouse Gases

• Global Warming

• Climate Change

The long-term heating of Earth's climate system observed since pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas level in Earth's atmosphere.

• Global Warming

• Climate Change

• Greenhouse Effect

• El Niño

A natural process that warms the Earth's surface. When the Sun's energy reaches the Earth's atmosphere, some of it is reflected to space and the rest is absorbed and re-radiated by greenhouse gases.

• Climate Change

• Global Warming

• Greenhouse Effect

• El Niño

A climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

• Global Warming

• El Niño

• Climate Change

• Greenhouse Effect

Select 3 negative impacts of climate change.

• increase in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

• flood

• melting glaciers

• rising sea levels

• wildfires