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| 9224953486 | global cooling | cooling of Earth's surface and atmosphere leading to glacification | 0 | |
| 9224953487 | global warming | increase in the average temperatures on Earth | 1 | |
| 9224953488 | glacial periods | Cool periods- more ice volume. Can consist of: less water in the oceans: global sea level fall. | 2 | |
| 9224953489 | interglacial periods | Warmer periods when the ice retreats to cover less of the earths surface | 3 | |
| 9224953490 | greenhouse effect | process in which certain gases trap sunlight energy in Earth's atmosphere as heat | 4 | |
| 9224953491 | tipping point | the time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped | 5 | |
| 9224953492 | amplify | give positive feedback to | 6 | |
| 9224953493 | dampen | give negative feedback to | 7 | |
| 9224953494 | local weather | the weather that affects a certain place | 8 | |
| 9224953495 | drought | a long period without rain | 9 | |
| 9224953497 | biodiversity | the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. | 10 | |
| 9224953498 | climat stabilization wedges | "wedges" or strategies to decrease CO2 emissions | 11 | |
| 9224953499 | clean coal technologies | technologies, equipment, and approaches to remove chemical contaminants | 12 | |
| 9224953500 | geoengineering | trying to manipulate certain natural conditions to help counter an enhanced greenhouse effect | 13 | |
| 9224953501 | energy taxes | Fee on each unit of fossil fuel burned | 14 | |
| 9224953502 | cap-and-trade approach | - emissions trading - incentive-based model, sell services instead of things | 15 | |
| 9224953503 | carbon neutral | an activity that does not change atmospheric CO2 concentrations | 16 | |
| 9224953504 | ozone thinning | The removal of ozone from the stratosphere by human produced chemicals or natural processes | 17 | |
| 9224953505 | halons | any number of unreactive gaseous compounds of carbon with halogens- damages the ozone layer | 18 | |
| 9224953506 | prevention | taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse | 19 |
