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| 6379779008 | Global change | Change that occurs in the chemical, biological, and physical properties of the planet. | 0 | |
| 6379779009 | Global climate change | Changes in the climate of Earth; an aspect of global change. | 1 | |
| 6379779010 | Global warming | The warming of the oceans, landmasses, and atmosphere of Earth; an aspect of global climate change. | 2 | |
| 6379779011 | Greenhouse effect | The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface. | 3 | |
| 6379779012 | 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 a molecule of CO2. | 4 | |
| 6379779013 | Foraminifera | Tiny, marine organisms having hard shells that resist decay after death and are used as indirect measurement of greenhouse gas changes over many years. | 5 | |
| 6379779014 | Ice coring | A sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica. | 6 | |
| 6379779015 | Climate feedbacks | A change in the climate that causes an impact that changes the climate further. | 7 | |
| 6379779016 | Ocean Acidification | The process by which an increase in ocean CO2 causes more CO2 to be converted into carbonic acid, which lowers the pH of the water. | 8 | |
| 6379779017 | Kyoto Protocol | An international agreement to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases from all industrialized countries to 5.2 percent below their 1990 levels by 2012. | 9 | |
| 6379779018 | Carbon sequestration | An approach to stabilizing greenhouse gases by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. | 10 |
