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Climate change |
the large scale long-term shift in planets weather patterns or average temperatures. Earth has had tropical climates and ice ages many times in its 4.5 billion years |
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Global Warming |
a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the Earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by the increase of CO2 + CFCs and other pollutants |
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Quaternary Period |
the current geological period dating from 2.6 million years ago to present day we live in the Holocene Epoch of the quaternary period which covers the last 12000 years since the end of the last ice age |
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glacial |
cold periods when ice covered large parts of the Earth |
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interglacial |
periods between the glacials |
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exponential growth |
continuous increase |
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global atmospheric circulation |
the movement of air around the earth to try and balance the temperature |
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Mitigation |
actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long term risk to human life and property from natural hazards e.g, building earthquakes prrof buildings it making international agreement about reducing carbon emissions |
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Adaptions |
actions taken to adjust to natural events e.g climate change, to reduce potential damage, limit the impacts, take advantage of opportunities or cope with the consequences |
