 | Term | Definition |
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What is global warming? |
The increase in Earth's average temperature. |
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What is climate change? |
Another name for global warming, but it's really the effect |
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Why is it happening? |
Many reasons, but burning fossil fuels and deforestation are the most important |
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How much warming has there been? |
1.2 to 1.4 ºF in the last 100 years |
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That's not a lot of warming! |
In some places it has been much more and much less |
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So, it gets warmer. Big deal. |
Obviously, there are other effects. Again, it's climate change |
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What's the biggest? |
For me, it's hundreds of millions of people at risk to malaria |
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That's bad, but it's not the climate |
Hotter weather, stronger hurricanes, more droughts, and flooding is. |
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Droughts and Flooding? |
Rain will increase in high altitudes and decrease in the tropics |
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How does that work? |
A hotter atmosphere can hold more rain, causing floods, but the high temperature will cause rain to evaporate in places that are already hot |
