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Climate Change: Climate Change Is A Change in The Statistical Distribution of Weather Patterns When That Change Lasts

Climate change refers to changes in weather patterns over decades or longer. It is caused by both natural factors like solar radiation and volcanic eruptions, as well as human activities like burning fossil fuels. The greenhouse effect occurs when gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide trap heat radiating from the Earth's surface, warming the planet beyond what it would be otherwise. While Earth has a natural greenhouse effect that supports life, human activities have intensified this effect and caused global warming, raising average worldwide temperatures. Renewable energy comes from replenishing resources like sunlight, wind, hydropower, and biomass. While not fully capable of powering modern society yet, renewable sources can provide electricity and help reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

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Climate Change: Climate Change Is A Change in The Statistical Distribution of Weather Patterns When That Change Lasts

Climate change refers to changes in weather patterns over decades or longer. It is caused by both natural factors like solar radiation and volcanic eruptions, as well as human activities like burning fossil fuels. The greenhouse effect occurs when gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide trap heat radiating from the Earth's surface, warming the planet beyond what it would be otherwise. While Earth has a natural greenhouse effect that supports life, human activities have intensified this effect and caused global warming, raising average worldwide temperatures. Renewable energy comes from replenishing resources like sunlight, wind, hydropower, and biomass. While not fully capable of powering modern society yet, renewable sources can provide electricity and help reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

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Climate Change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts
for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change may refer to a
change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term
average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by
factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics,
and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of
recent climate change, often referred to as.

Greenhouse gasses and its effects


The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the
planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere. [1][2]If a planet's
atmosphere contains radioactively active gases (i.e., greenhouse gases) the atmosphere will radiate
energy in all directions. Part of this radiation is directed towards the surface, warming it. The
downward component of this radiation that is, the strength of the greenhouse effect will depend
on the atmosphere's temperature and on the amount of greenhouse gases that the atmosphere
contains. On Earth, the atmosphere is warmed by absorption of infrared thermal radiation from the
underlying surface, absorption of shorter wavelength radiant energy from the sun,
and convective heat fluxes from the surface. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere radiate energy,
some of which is directed to the surface and lower atmosphere. The mechanism that produces this
difference between the actual surface temperature and the effective temperature is due to the
atmosphere and is known as the greenhouse effect. Earths natural greenhouse effect is critical to
supporting life. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests, have
intensified the natural greenhouse effect, causing global warming.

Global warming
Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average
temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.[2] Multiple lines of scientific evidence
show that the climate system is warming.[3][4][5] Although the increase of near-surface atmospheric
temperature is the measure of global warming often reported in the popular press, most of the
additional energy stored in the climate system since 1970 has gone into the oceans. The rest has
melted ice and warmed the continents and atmosphere. Many of the observed changes since the
1950s are unprecedented over tens to thousands of yearsn 3545656

Renewable energy, its types and needs


Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are
naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves,
and geothermal heat.[2] Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity
generation, air and water heating/cooling, transportation, and rural (off-grid) energy services.

Solar. This form of energy relies on the nuclear fusion power from the core of the
Sun. This energy can be collected and converted in a few different ways. The range
is from solar water heating with solar collectors or attic cooling with solar attic fans
for domestic use to the complex technologies of direct conversion of sunlight to
electrical energy using mirrors and boilers or photovoltaic cells. Unfortunately these
are currently insufficient to fully power our modern society.
Wind Power. The movement of the atmosphere is driven by differences of
temperature at the Earth's surface due to varying temperatures of the Earth's
surface when lit by sunlight. Wind energy can be used to pump water or generate
electricity, but requires extensive areal coverage to produce significant amounts of
energy.
Hydroelectric energy. This form uses the gravitational potential of elevated water
that was lifted from the oceans by sunlight. It is not strictly speaking renewable
since all reservoirs eventually fill up and require very expensive excavation to
become useful again. At this time, most of the available locations for hydroelectric
dams are already used in the developed world.
Biomass is the term for energy from plants. Energy in this form is very commonly
used throughout the world. Unfortunately the most popular is the burning of trees
for cooking and warmth. This process releases copious amounts of carbon dioxide
gases into the atmosphere and is a major contributor to unhealthy air in many
areas. Some of the more modern forms of biomass energy are methane generation
and production of alcohol for automobile fuel and fueling electric power plants.
By using renewable energy sources like solarenergy, we also reduce our dependence on
fossil fuel gas and oil reserves, which are becoming more expensive and difficult to find. It also
reduces our dependence on imported fossil fuels, improving our energy security.

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