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| 13476995914 | global climate change | changes in the average weather that occurs in an area over a period of years of decades | 0 | |
| 13476995915 | global warming | the warming of the oceans, land masses, and atmosphere of the earth | 1 | |
| 13476995916 | greenhouse effect | absorption of infrared radiation by atmospheric gases and reradiation of the energy back to Earth | 2 | |
| 13476995936 | greenhouse effect picture |  | 3 | |
| 13476995917 | global change affects | rising sea levels, more fossil fuel extraction, more contamination, biogeochemical cycle altered, less biodiversity, emerging infectious diseases, overharvesting/ exploitation of plants and animals | 4 | |
| 13476995918 | global climate change affects | more storm intensity, altered patterns of ocean circulation | 5 | |
| 13476995919 | global warming affects | the warming of the oceans, land masses, and atmosphere of the earth, increased heat waves, reduced cold spells | 6 | |
| 13476995920 | greenhouse warming potential | an estimate of how much a molecule of any compound can contribute to global warming over a period of 100 years relative to the molecule of CO2 | 7 | |
| 13476995921 | greenhouse warming potential calculation | calculated by the amount of infrared energy that a given gas can absorb and how long the molecule of gas can persist in the atmosphere | 8 | |
| 13476995922 | Charles David Keeling | the first person to properly measure CO2, tested the levels of CO2 throughout the year and saw a change in seasonal concentrations | 9 | |
| 13476995923 | Kyoto protocol | an international agreement that sets a goal for global emissions of greenhouse gases from all industrial countries to be reduced by 5.2% below their 1990 levels by 2012 | 10 | |
| 13476995924 | ocean acidification | the process by which an increase in ocean temperatures causes more CO2 to be converted to carbonic acid, which lowers the pH of the water and makes it more acidic | 11 | |
| 13476995925 | ocean acidification (positive feedback loop) | it would still happen if CO2 wasn't a greenhouse gas, but warmer oceans absorb less CO2, therefore more CO2 ends up in the atmosphere and causes more global warming which causes oceans to warm in a continuous positive feedback loop | 12 | |
| 13476995926 | carbon sequestration | an approach to stabilizing greenhouse gases by removing CO2 from the atmosphere | 13 | |
| 13476995927 | methane natural source | comes from termite mounds and wetlands | 14 | |
| 13476995928 | water vapor natural source | comes from trees through transpiration and wetlands | 15 | |
| 13476995929 | nitrous oxides natural source | comes from wetlands and fire burning forests | 16 | |
| 13476995930 | CO2 natural source | comes from termite mounds, wetlands, trees, and fire burning forests | 17 | |
| 13476995931 | methane anthropogenic source | energy production and combustion, livestock digestion | 18 | |
| 13476995932 | nitrous oxides anthropogenic source | most from agricultural soils (in fertilizers) | 19 | |
| 13476995933 | CO2 anthropogenic source | combustion to generate electricity, for transportation, for homes and businesses, industrial processes | 20 | |
| 13476995934 | water vapor | not a big greenhouse gas because it doesn't last long in the atmosphere and humans don't influence it much | 21 |
