what are natural causes of climate variation/change?
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Glossary A-D Variability may be due to natural internal processes within the climate system, or to variations in natural or anthropogenic (human-driven) external forcing. Global climate change indicates a change in either the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for several decades or longer.
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What Causes Temperatures to Change on Earth? Quick Answer. Some of the things that cause temperatures change on Earth include the greenhouse effect, the amount of heat from the sun reaching Earth, deforestation and changes in Earth's surface with regards to reflectivity. Temperature change on Earth has become a major topic of debate in recent years because of its negative effects.
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5) Causes of recent declines in biodiversity Recent losses in biodiversity 5) Causes of recent declines in biodiversity 5) Causes of recent declines in biodiversity The major causes of biodiversity decline are land use changes, pollution, changes in atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, changes in the nitrogen cycle and acid rain, climate alterations, and the introduction of exotic species, all coincident to human population growth.
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Causes of climate change Causes of climate change. Humans are increasingly influencing the climate and the earth's temperature by burning fossil fuels, cutting down rainforests and farming livestock. This adds enormous amounts of greenhouse gases to those naturally occurring in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and global warming.
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Natural Causes of Climate Change Orbital Changes. Milankovitch cycles over the past 1 000 000 years. Source: Global Warming Art. The Milankovitch Theory explains the 3 cyclical changes in Earth’s orbit and tilt that cause the climate fluctuations that occur over tens of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years. You have learned about these orbital changes in the Temperature over Time module.
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- Key Points There is a scientiﬁc consensus that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are increasing and that this is causing global climate change. Human-driven emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as well as land-use change, are the processes primarily responsible for the increase.
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- These secondary changes are called climate feedbacks, and they could more than double the amount of warming caused by carbon dioxide alone. The primary feedbacks are due to snow and ice, water vapor, clouds, and the carbon cycle.
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HAWAII Dictionary entry overview: What does Hawaii mean? • HAWAII (noun) The noun HAWAII has 2 senses: 1. a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands 2. the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks Familiarity information: HAWAII used as a noun is rare.
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- Climate change is any substantial change in Earth’s climate that lasts for an extended period of time. Global warming refers to climate change that causes an increase in the average temperature of the lower atmosphere. Global warming can have many different causes, but it is most commonly associated with human interference, specifically the release of excessive amounts of greenhouse gases.
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- State of Alaska > Climate Change in Alaska. Climate change describes the variation in Earth's global and regional atmosphere over time. These changes are likely caused by a combination of natural processes and activities. The rise in the Earth's average surface temperature is known as global warming.
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Climate change Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions.he most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties (principally its mean and spread) of the climate system when considered over long periods of time, regardless of cause.
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- Climate change will disrupt food production. and distribution in other ways that are hard to quantify. and include in prediction models, such as:  of plant pests, diseases and weeds—all of which More droughts causing large-scale crop loss.  Increasing frequent, severe, and longer-lasting heat. waves killing crops.
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What is Natural Climate Change? Human activities have caused a rise in carbon dioxide emissions and a drop in the Earth’s ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The combined effects of variations in Earth’s position to the Sun also contribute to natural climate change.
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What is a major cause of variation within a species? Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: The major cause is the splintering of 2 or more populations of a species into isolated gene-pools with a natural or man-made barrier preventing mating and therefore gene flow between populations.
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- LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. noun. The definition of metastasis is the movement of disease from one body part to another by way of the bloodstream or the lymph system. An example of metastasis is the spreading of cancer from one spot in the body to another.
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- These natural causes are still in play today, but their influence is too small or they occur too slowly to explain the rapid warming seen in recent decades. We know this because scientists closely monitor the natural and human activities that influence climate with a fleet of satellites and surface instruments.Remote meteorological stations (left) and orbiting satellites (right) help scientists monitor the causes and effects of global warming.n Earth’s history before the Industrial Revolution, Earth’s climate changed due to natural causes not related to human activity. Most often, global climate has changed because of variations in sunlight. Tiny wobbles in Earth’s orbit altered when and where sunlight falls on Earth’s surface.
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Greenhouse Effect The Natural Greenhouse Effect. The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, ozone, methane, for example) trap energy that comes from the sun.
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Global Climate Change: Evidence and Causes But scientists are in agreement, the global climate is rapidly warming and the causes are rooted in human activity. Some of clearest evidence that global climate change is indeed occuring today and is being caused by human activity comes from carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Take a look at the graph below, which shows atmospheric carbon dioxide levels for the past 400,000 years:
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- Global warming is the gradual increase of the earth's atmospheric temperature. The cause of global warming is the increase of greenhouse gas in the environment. Greenhouse gas comes from carbon dioxide emissions, chlorofluorocarbons and other damaging pollutants.
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Causes of climate change Causes for rising emissions. 1  Burning coal, oil and gas produces carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. 2  Cutting down forests (deforestation). Trees help to regulate the climate by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. 3  Increasing livestock farming. Cows and sheep produce large amounts of methane when they digest their food.
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Biology 1 - Chapter 1 Increase in temperature and change in weather patterns all around the planet, due mostly to increasing atmospheric CO2 levels from the burning of fossil fuels. The increase in temperature, called global warming, is a major aspect of global climate change.
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- Further information: Earth has both a natural greenhouse effect and a man-made gre … enhouse effect. The natural greenhouse effect is caused mostly by water vapour, and to a much smaller degree, to carbon dioxide, methane, and a few other minor gases. These factors help keep the Earth warm and habitable.
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Climate change Climate is influenced by a multitude of factors that operate at timescales ranging from hours to hundreds of millions of years. Many of the causes of climate change are external to the Earth system. Others are part of the Earth system but external to the atmosphere. Still others involve interactions between the atmosphere and other components of the Earth system and are collectively described as feedbacks within the Earth system.
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- Is Current Warming Natural? In Earth’s history before the Industrial Revolution, Earth’s climate changed due to natural causes not related to human activity. Most often, global climate has changed because of variations in sunlight. Tiny wobbles in Earth’s orbit altered when and where sunlight falls on Earth’s surface.
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- Solar irradiance. It's reasonable to assume that changes in the sun's energy output would cause the climate to change, since the sun is the fundamental source of energy that drives our climate system. Indeed, studies show that solar variability has played a role in past climate changes.ases that contribute to the greenhouse effect include: 1  Water vapor. 2  Carbon dioxide (CO 2). 3  Methane. 4  Nitrous oxide. 5  Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
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- Natural variability Climate change is a normal part of the Earth’s natural variability, which is related to interactions among the atmosphere, ocean, and land, as well as changes in the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth.