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Planet Connecticut - an environmental education program
Planet Connecticut - an environmental education program When the global temperature increases - even a little at a time - the climate will eventually change and that can impact ... on lights, hair dryers and video games puts gases into the air that increase global temperature. How do your choices measure up? Find out! Is your school participating in Planet Connecticut ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
But if rainfall decreases significantly and temperature increases, production could go down by 6 per cent. This will severely affect a ... availability will decrease across the country. Water pollution will worsen — an increase in temperature will lead to increased eutrophication in wetlands and freshwater supplies. Himalayan glaciers, which ...
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CO2 sources - Respiration
Potential for control Quite obviously, limiting global greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, future global temperature increases, could help to ...
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CO2 sinks - Oceans
Potential for control Limiting global greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, future global temperature increases, could help to avoid the such surface water warming and help to maintain the oceanic ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
IPCC-projected range (3-5°C by 2100), ... additional annual cases, relative to an estimated global background total of 500 million cases). Some increases in non-vector-borne infectious diseases-such as salmonellosis, cholera, and giardiasis-also could ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Javascript Other reports in this collection 2.2.1. African Climate Trends and Projections Temperature and precipitation trends are reviewed in Annex A of this report. Rainfall trends-especially ... background of large natural variability compounded by the use of imperfect climate models. Projected temperature increases are likely to lead to increased open water and soil/plant evaporation. Exactly how ...
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David Suzuki Foundation: Climate Change: Impacts: British Columbia
Climate change will also change water levels, temperature and peak flow timing for rivers and streams leading to further pressures on already stressed ... , often reaches temperatures of 22 degrees while the salmon are returning to spawn. If the temperature increases a further one or two degrees, most of the returning salmon will likely die before ...
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Climate Change - Energy: Fossil Fuels
As the barrier grows, the earth’s temperature increases. This is magnifying the natural greenhouse effect and the result is climate change. We now ...
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CRU Information Sheet no. 5: The Millennial Temperature Record
Sheet no. 5: The Millennial Temperature Record Climatic Research Unit : Information sheets 5: The Millennial Temperature Record Phil Jones (Also available as a PostScript file) Considerable progress has ... of explosive volcanic eruptions changes in atmospheric composition as a result of human activities (increases in greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols) Natural forcing from the sun and volcanoes ...
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Temperature
In the troposphere and mesosphere, air temperature usually decreases with increasing altitude, whilst in the stratosphere, air temperature rises with increasing altitude. In the outer atmosphere or thermosphere, air temperature ... , the temperature of the former decreases whilst the temperature of the latter increases. When thermal equilibrium is reached, the temperature of the ...
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