Geography - climate change

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Climate change

Any significant change in the Earths' climate over a long period. The climate constantly changes, it always has, and it always will.

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How can we tell climate change has happened

Ice and sediment cores

Pollen analysis

Tree rings

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Natural causes

Orbital changes (more solar radiation)

Volcaanic activity (debris from the eruption can reflect light)

Solar output (reduced solar output cools the earth)

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Human causes

Burning of fossil fuels add to the greenhouse effect

Farming (livestock and rice) release methane

Deforestation stops plants from absorbing the carbon dioxide

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Environmental effects

Sea levels rise

Ice caps melt

More flooding

Bleaching of coral reefs

Decrease biodiversity

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Impacts on people

Death due to heat

To warm to live in some areas

Costal areas lost to the water

Changes to farming

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Mitigation

Planting trees to absorb carbon dioxide

Carbon capture and storage

Clean energy production

International agreements

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Adaptation

Changes to farming

Managing water supplies

Better flood warning systems

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