GMS 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marshall Islands, Greenland Ice Sheet, Curbed
14 Apr 2017
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Melting glaciers: the slow disaster in the andes https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=zf_irrhd98s. Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the earth"s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the earth"s climate. (http://www. livescience. com/topics/global-warming/) There"s a lot of information floating around about climate change. Most people know it has something to do with industrial pollution, changing weather and car exhaust, and they kind of get what al gore was trying to say in an inconvenient truth. In a nutshell, climate change occurs when long-term weather patterns are altered for example, through human activity. Global warming is one measure of climate change. Life on earth is possible because of the warmth of the sun. While some of this incoming solar radiation bounces back into space, a small portion of it is trapped by the delicate balance of gases that make up our atmosphere.
