Global Warming

By: Priyapa & Suphasuta

Global Warming
A gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere
and it ocean
Average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 degree
celsius over the past 100 years
Primary sources that has occurred over the past 50 years:
Burning of fossil fuels
Land clearing
Agriculture
Other human activities

Global Warming
It is predicted that average global temperatures could increase between 1.4
and 5.8 degree celsius by the year 2100
Changes resulting from global warming:
Increase in occurrence and severity of storms and other severe weather events
Rising sea levels due to the melting of the polar ice caps

Glaciers is shrinking
Alison Cook found that 87% of the glaciers
around the Antarctic Peninsula are receding.
Other workers have found evidence of glacier
recession and a measureable sea-level
contribution.
In this region are shrinking particularly rapidly,
as their mass balance is more directly
controlled by temperature and precipitation.

Glaciers are thinning

Higher rates of thinning for glaciers on the north-western Antarctic
Peninsula.
Surface lowering ceases at 400m in altitude across all the glaciers because
of increased high-altitude accumulation.
These glaciers are affected by both oceanic and atmospheric warming.
The thinning of these glaciers is bringing them nearer to floatation.
The amount of lowering has probably been reduced by this higher
precipitation.

Works Cited
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Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula. From Wikimedia Creative Commons. [Photograph]. Retrieved
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hange/
.
Recent sea level rise. Credit: Bruce C. Douglas (1997). Global Sea Rise: A Redetermination.
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Warming art project. Wikimedia Commons.
Global Warming: News, Facts, Causes & Effects. (n.d.). Retrieved September 14, 2015.
Goddard Institute for Space Studies. (2006) Global temperature change. [Graphic]. Retrieved
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