ENVS195 Study Guide - Final Guide: Runaway Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level Rise, Shortwave Radio
30 Mar 2016
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Climate is the longer term average-day to day weather condiions of a speciic region or place: also includes variaion of those averages. Climate change is the long-term shit of those average climate condiions in a speciic locaion, region, or the enire planet. Climate change vs. global warming: global warming. Does not include any informaion about changes in precipitaion, seasonal variaions, or anything related to atmospheric condiions: climate change. Much more broad and refers to atmospheric condiions. Incoming solar radiaion from the sun as the form of short wave radiaion. Radiaion that is moving through the atmosphere may bump into greenhouse gas molecules and is emited back out to space. Causes the warming of the surface and the lower atmosphere. Without the greenhouse efect, there would be on life on the planet. May end up with too many greenhouse gases and will have a runaway greenhouse gas efect.
