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Whatisthedifferencebetweenweatherandclimate?
Climate describes the average or typical conditions of
temperature, relative humidity, cloudiness, precipitation,
wind speed and direction, and other meteorological
factors that prevail globally or regionally for extended
periods in a particular region. Weather describes the
hourly or daily conditions that people experience each

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Therehavebeenlongtermandshorttermclimatecyclesforhundredsofmillionsofyears,asfarbackas
these changes can be measured. Many of those climatic changes were dramatic and rapid, some, the
resultofimpactsfromcometsorasteroids.

In its most recent fiveyear assessment, the IPCC confirmed again that Earth's climate is changing and
thathumanactivitiesaretheprimaryfactorscausingthischange.Manyofthefactorsthatcausedearlier
changes continue to influence today's climate, but human activities have now become the predominant
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Burninglargeamountsoffossilfuelscoal,oil,naturalgasistherootcauseofglobalwarming.Burning
releases heattrapping gases into the atmosphere. The gases, especially CO2, act like a blanket that
retainsheatandrestrictstherateatwhichtheEarth'ssurfacecanradiateheatintospace.Anotherfactor
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TheEarthhaswarmedupatanunprecedentedrateoverthelasthundredyearsandparticularlyoverthe

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AccordingtothelatestreportfromtheIntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange(IPCC),theaverage
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If we take aggressive action to reduce emissions, the temperature change could be modest. If we

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continueonourpresentcourse,however,theamountofchangewillbesubstantial.Mostexpertsagree
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releasedtotheatmospherewhenfossilfuelsareburned.Today,thecurrentlevelsofCarbonDioxidein
theatmospherearehigherthanatanytimeduringthepast800,000years.

Wherewilltheimpactbegreatest?
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WatervapourandtracegaseskeeptheEarthabout54degreesFwarmerthanitwouldbewithoutthem.
Thisfunctionisoftencalledthegreenhouseeffect,andthegasesthatcauseitareknownasgreenhouse
gases.

The greenhouse effect is a naturally occurring phenomenon that "blankets" the earth and warms it,
maintaining the temperature that living things need to survive. Surprisingly, the atmosphere's most
abundantgasesNitrogen,Oxygen,andArgondonotinfluencetheclimate.Instead,itisthemolecules
of trace gases, especially water vapour (H2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous Oxide
(N2O) and Ozone (O3) that strongly absorb infrared radiation contained in sunlight, or emitted by land
andwaterastheycool.

Whenweburnfossilfuels,wereleaseadditionalCO2thatbuildsupandtrapsheatthatwouldotherwise
escape. This humancaused blanket effect leads to warming of the planet, disrupting the atmospheric
balancethatkeepstheclimatestable.

Howfasthaveemissionsgrowninrecentyears?
Emissions of greenhouse gases have grown at an accelerating rate in the recent decades. In 2011 the
annualrateofemissionswasabout54percenthigherthanitwasin1990.Consequently,theamountof
CO2intheatmospherehasincreasedby10%duringthepasttwodecades.

Thereisastrongcorrelationbetweentheriseinglobaltemperatureandtheincreasingconcentrationof
CarbonDioxideintheatmosphere.

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animals,dissolvedintotheocean,ordegradedbysunlightorbychemicalreactionswithothermolecules.
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