Climate Change Lectures Flashcards

Decks in this Class (29):

• The Earth System Recap

  The Earth System Recap

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  what does the climate system refer to,

  what is the most unstable and rapidly ch,

  atmospheric processes have a direct impa
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• Greenhouse Effect And Climate Sensitivit

  Greenhouse effect and climate sensitivity

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  why is the sun unusual,

  the earth recieving sunlight has a much,

  if everything is in equilibrium no chang
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• Net Radiation Radiative Forcing And Eart

  Net radiation, radiative forcing and Earth's sensitivity

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  the energy balance can be described via,

  what can cause a temperature change,

  what is radiative forcing
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• Weather And Climate

  Weather and Climate

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  what is a teleconnection,

  what determines the weather experienced,

  what is atmospheric circulation driven b
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• Major Weather Patterns And Past Climates

  Major weather patterns and past climates

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  hurricanes more typically affect where,

  what weather changes can occur during an,

  what is la nina
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• A Systems Approach To Climate

  A systems approach to climate

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  what are the components of climate,

  what are some fluxes of the atmosphere,

  what are some fluxes of the earth s surf
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• Carbon Cycle

  Carbon cycle

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  sink vs source,

  carbon in biota roughly equals carbon in,

  carbon in ocean mixed layer roughly equa
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• Climate Modelling

  Climate modelling

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  why is there limits to weather forecasti,

  start simplemake process models of diffe,

  information to construct a model
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• Detection Attribution And Future Project

  Detection, attribution, and future projections

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  what policy makers and the public want t,

  to measure climate change a baseline is,

  once you start to change the climate it
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• Downscaling

  Downscaling

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  what is downscaling,

  why are upscaling and downscaling both e,

  why is it usually unhelpful to impose la
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• Climate Change Adaptation In Pakistan

  Climate change adaptation in Pakistan

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  give examples of slow onset climate chan,

  give examples of impacts of slow onset e,

  give examples of fast onset climate chan
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• Fisheries

  Fisheries

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  what is the cryosphere,

  difference between antartica and arctic,

  global temperature change enhanced at th
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• Flooding

  Flooding

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  what is the cost of flooding in the uk,

  in uk areas of high socioeconomic depriv,

  ipcc has low confidence on there being a
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• Water Access And Scarcity

  Water access and scarcity

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  in a perfect world the real value and th,

  what is land grabbing,

  what are the most energy inefficient rat
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• Velocity Of Climate Change

  Velocity of climate change

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  exemplify some alternative forces in the,

  what is an ecotone what is an ecotonal b,

  why would marine species be better at ad
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• Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses To Clima

  Terrestrial ecosystem responses to climate change-key concepts

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  species,

  major challenges facing ecosystems,

  changes in climate will affect at many l
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• Climate Change And Biodiversity

  Climate change and biodiversity

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  in situ conservation strategies,

  ex situ conservation strategies,

  what is a seedbank
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• Migrations As A Response To Climate Chan

  Migrations as a response to climate change

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  what is the ecological space occupied by,

  example of ecological spaces in real wor,

  what happens with species with different
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• Uk Policy

  UK Policy

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  what is mitigation,

  what is adaptation,

  what are the three main areas of climate
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• International Policy

  International Policy

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  what were the key points from article 2,

  how the unfccc works,

  what does the sbi subsidiary body for im
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• Jevons Paradox

  Jevons' Paradox

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  who was william stanley jevons 1835 1882,

  relevance of william stanley jevons,

  what was the jevons paradox
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• Sceptics Deniers And The Rest Of Us Myth

  Sceptics, deniers, and the rest of us- myth, misinformation, and the media

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  what are climate sceptics,

  what are climate deniers,

  climate change deniers have different ag
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• Personal Carbon

  Personal Carbon

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  where does our most people s information,

  lack of public interest may be a good th,

  global distribution of vulnerability to
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• Geoengineering

  Geoengineering

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  what is the keeling curve,

  what is geoengineering,

  what are the two types of geoengineering
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• Thinking Ecologically

  Thinking ecologically

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  what is the photosynthesis equation,

  what happens to the photosynthesis equat,

  example of biological approaches to taki
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• Climate Science Exam Summary

  Climate Science Exam Summary

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  define resilience,

  define vulnerability,

  define maladaptation
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• Ecological Consequences Of Sea Ice Decli

  Ecological consequences of sea ice decline

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  what is the cryosphere,

  difference between antarctic and arctic,

  loss of summer sea ice has accelerated i
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• Conservation

  Conservation

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  define biological conservation,

  what does the state of the worlds plants,

  what is cites
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• Climate Change And Wildfire

  Climate change and wildfire

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  what is a fire,

  the thermal degradation of wood involves,

  what are wildfires
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