AP review chapter 19
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 IPCC | Intergovermental panel climate change |
| drought | occurs when evaporation from increased temperatures greatly exceed precipitation for a prolonged period |
| climate stabilization wedges | phasing in each wedge would reduce co2 emission by roughly the amount during the coming 50 years period |
| .Mobilizing- | outlinges a global emergency plan to cut co2 emissions by 80% by 2020 |
| CCS | removing co2 from the smokestacks of coal burning power and industrial plants and then storing it somewhere |
| clean coal technologies- | ccs that promote the continuing coal to synfuels |
| kyotol | -a compromising of countries to reduce there co2 emissions to and average of 5.2% below their regular levels |
| .montreal protocol- | the treaty's goal is to cut emissions of cfc's by about 35% between 1989 and 2000 |
| reducing population | which would decrease the number of fossil fuel consumers and co2 emits reducing poverty |
| .climate | physical properties of the trosphere of an area based on analysisof its weathering records over long periods |
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