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The Earth System Recap
What does the climate system refe...,
What is the most unstable and rap...,
Atmospheric processes have a dire...
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Greenhouse effect and climate sensitivity
Why is the sun unusual,
The earth recieving sunlight has ...,
If everything is in equilibrium n...
10
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Net radiation, radiative forcing and Earth's sensitivity
The energy balance can be describ...,
What can cause a temperature change,
What is radiative forcing
10
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Weather and Climate
What is a teleconnection,
What determines the weather exper...,
What is atmospheric circulation d...
16
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Major weather patterns and past climates
Hurricanes more typically affect ...,
What weather changes can occur du...,
What is la nina
19
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A systems approach to climate
What are the components of climate,
What are some fluxes of the atmos...,
What are some fluxes of the earth...
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Carbon cycle
Sink vs source,
Carbon in biota roughly equals ca...,
Carbon in ocean mixed layer rough...
12
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Climate modelling
Why is there limits to weather fo...,
Start simplemake process models o...,
Information to construct a model
16
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Detection, attribution, and future projections
What policy makers and the public...,
To measure climate change a basel...,
Once you start to change the clim...
12
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Downscaling
What is downscaling,
Why are upscaling and downscaling...,
Why is it usually unhelpful to im...
17
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Climate change adaptation in Pakistan
Give examples of slow onset clima...,
Give examples of impacts of slow ...,
Give examples of fast onset clima...
19
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Fisheries
What is the cryosphere,
Difference between antartica and ...,
Global temperature change enhance...
12
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Flooding
What is the cost of flooding in t...,
In uk areas of high socioeconomic...,
Ipcc has low confidence on there ...
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Water access and scarcity
In a perfect world the real value...,
What is land grabbing,
What are the most energy ineffici...
5
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Velocity of climate change
Exemplify some alternative forces...,
What is an ecotone what is an eco...,
Why would marine species be bette...
3
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Terrestrial ecosystem responses to climate change-key concepts
Species,
Major challenges facing ecosystems,
Changes in climate will affect at...
13
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Climate change and biodiversity
In situ conservation strategies,
Ex situ conservation strategies,
What is a seedbank
17
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Migrations as a response to climate change
What is the ecological space occu...,
Example of ecological spaces in r...,
What happens with species with di...
15
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UK Policy
What is mitigation,
What is adaptation,
What are the three main areas of ...
22
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International Policy
What were the key points from art...,
How the unfccc works,
What does the sbi subsidiary body...
13
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Jevons' Paradox
Who was william stanley jevons 18...,
Relevance of william stanley jevons,
What was the jevons paradox
12
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Sceptics, deniers, and the rest of us- myth, misinformation, and the media
What are climate sceptics,
What are climate deniers,
Climate change deniers have diffe...
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Personal Carbon
Where does our most people s info...,
Lack of public interest may be a ...,
Global distribution of vulnerabil...
5
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Geoengineering
What is the keeling curve,
What is geoengineering,
What are the two types of geoengi...
12
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Thinking ecologically
What is the photosynthesis equation,
What happens to the photosynthesi...,
Example of biological approaches ...
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Climate Science Exam Summary
Define resilience,
Define vulnerability,
Define maladaptation
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Ecological consequences of sea ice decline
What is the cryosphere,
Difference between antarctic and ...,
Loss of summer sea ice has accele...
12
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Conservation
Define biological conservation,
What does the state of the worlds...,
What is cites
20
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Climate change and wildfire
What is a fire,
The thermal degradation of wood i...,
What are wildfires
14
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