[EARTHSS 15] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 63 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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The climate is very complex but the basic physics of climate change are not that hard to understand: weather vs climate. If you do not like the climate move : climate is place. Very predictable: we can predict that phoenix is warmer that fargo for precisely the same reasons that we can predict a warmer future. Heat budgets: dancing molecules and heat rays! Nearly all of the air is made of oxygen (o2) and nitrogen (n2) in which 2 atoms of the same element share electrons. Diatomic molecules can vibrate back and forth like balls on a spring, but the ends are identical. Carbon dioxide (co2) and water vapor (h2o) are very different. Molecules that have may ways to wiggle are called greenhouse molecules. They have many more ways to vibrate and rotate, so they are very. Good at absorbing and emitting infrared (heat) radiation: the green house effect.
