PBHL 2102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Landfill Gas, Storm Drain, Recommended Exposure Limit
30 Apr 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Chapter 10 global climate change: define and differentiate between global warming and global climate change. Global warming refers to the recent and ongoing rise in global average temperature near earth"s surface. It is caused mostly by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Global warming is causing climate patterns to change. However, global warming itself represents only one aspect of climate change. Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. In other words, climate change includes major changes in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns, among other effects, that occur over several decades or longer: evidence for global climate change. The greenhouse effect- des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)es ho(cid:449) the ea(cid:396)th"s at(cid:373)osphe(cid:396)e a(cid:272)ts like the pa(cid:374)es of glass i(cid:374) a greenhouse. Co2, water vapor and other gases in the atmosphere act like the glass in the greenhouse trapping heat. The following are major greenhouses gases of concern: water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide (co2),
