EARTH SCIENCE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
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Many climate characteristics, such as temperature, rainfall, wind patterns, and storm frequency.
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Types of indirect evidence indicators shed light on past climate.
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Programs that combine what is known about the atmosphere and oceans to simulate, or imitate, climate processes.
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made up of oxygen, water, carbon dioxide
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Detailed explanation-1: -Temperatures are rising world-wide due to greenhouse gases trapping more heat in the atmosphere. Droughts are becoming longer and more extreme around the world. Tropical storms becoming more severe due to warmer ocean water temperatures.
Detailed explanation-2: -Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term.
Detailed explanation-3: -Global temperature is warming, weather patterns are changing, polar ice is melting, and sea level is rising.
Detailed explanation-4: -UNESCO and other studies found that changes in rainfall pattern could be attributed to the shifts in global wind pattern. These shifts are due to the changes in the ocean surface temperature. Effect of human activity on the surface vegetation is also causing rainfall pattern variation.