Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect

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Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect

• Climate and Climate Change

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What is the Greenhouse Effect?

• http//earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/gre
  enhouse/
• Natural effect
• Keeps our planet inhabitable
• Other greenhouse planets- Venus

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Comparing the Earth to a greenhouse

• The glassthe earths atmosphere
• Inside the greenhouseconditions here on earths
  surface
• Which type of ray is incoming?
• Which type of ray is outgoing?

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Terrestrial Radiation

• The form of energy the earth gives off
• Infraredoutgoing
• Visible lightincoming

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Greenhouse gases
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What is global warming the result of?

• Addition of more greenhouse gases to the
  atmosphere
• Greenhouse gases are added naturally and by human
  activities

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What are the effects of global warming?

• Warmer temperatures globally
• Melting of polar ice cap and glaciers
• Sea level rise
• Climate change
• More severe weather?
• http//www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.
  html

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What can you do?

• Lower your energy consumption (burning of fossil
  fuels)
• Recycle
• Lower your carbon footprint---------
• http//www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalc
  ulator/