HICC - Human Impact on Climate Change Module Overview
Human Impact on Climate Change Overview
It's Getting Hot in Here!
The words climate change and global warming are often used to talk about the same thing; the fact that the Earth’s temperature has been steadily rising for over 100 years. Though many people interchange the two words Climate Change and Global Warming, they are different.
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In this module, we will study the following topics:
What is Climate Change
Causes of Climate Change
Effects of Climate Change
Climate Change - What now?
Key Terms
- Adaptation – involves adjusting to actual or expected future climate
- Biodiversity - the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
- Climate Change - change in global or regional climate patterns
- El Nino- natural climate variation; the trade winds weaken or reverse directions; warm water accumulates on the ocean surface off of South America
- ENSO Cycle- a scientific term that describes the fluctuations in temperature between the ocean and atmosphere in the east-central Equatorial Pacific
- Extreme Weather - includes unexpected, unusual, unpredictable, severe or unseasonal weather, including but not limited to heavy rainfall, snow, hurricanes, etc
- Food Security the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food
- Global Warming - a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants
- Interglacial period - is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age
- La Nina - Natural climate variation; the trade winds are stronger than normal; surface water off of South America is cold
- Long-term climate change – change in climate over 1000s of years or longer
- Mitigation – reducing climate change by the flow of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
- Pleistocene Epoch - defined as the time period that began about 2.6 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The most recent Ice Age
- Water Stress - a situation in which the water resources in a region or country are insufficient for its needs
- Weather –refers to atmospheric conditions that occur locally over short periods of time—from minutes to hours or days
- Short-term climate change – change in climate over a short time span
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