BIOL 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Global Warming, Core Data, Cellular Respiration
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Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the planet. Is very important in determining physical, chemical, and biological processes. Global climate change refers to the sum of all the changes in local temperature and precipitation patterns that result from global warming. Weather refers to the short-term, highly variable atmospheric conditions such as temperature, moisture, sunlight, and wind. Whereas, climate refers to the long-term average pattern of regional or global weather! What is the cause of global climate change: climate change is normal, but recently, the rate of change is drastic, caused by human activities, the greenhouse effect, humans have been releasing tremendous amounts of co2 since the. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have an effect that is similar to glass in a greenhouse: high radiation in the form of short-wavelength light can easily pass through the gasses, but low-energy infrared radiation gets trapped by them.
