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CLIMATE CHANGE

INTRODUCTION:

• - The intergovernmental panel of climate change


(IPCC), a united nations body that evaluates climate change
science, released its reports on global climate change. The
reports important conclusions were the following: world’s
climate has change significantly over the past century; the
significant change has human influence; using climate
models and if the trends continues, the global mean surface
temperature will increase between 10 C and 3.50 C by 2100.
CLIMATE CHANGE:
• - climate change refers to the statistically
significant changes in climate for continuous
period of time. Factors that contribute to climate
change can be natural internal process, external
forces, and persistent anthropogenic changes in
the composition of the atmosphere or in land use.
It can also be due to natural occurrences or
contributed by acts of human beings.
CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
NATURAL CAUSE:
1. VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS- volcanic eruption are one of
the natural causes of climate change. When volcanic erupt, it
emits different natural aerosols like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide,
salt crystals, volcanic ashes or dust, and even microorganism like
bacteria and viruses. The volcanic eruption can cause a coolling
effect to the lithosphere because its emitted aerosol can block a
certain percentage of solar radiation. This cooling effect can last
for one to two years.
• - there are several recorded major volcanic
eruptions that cause climate change. The MOUNT
TAMBORA of Indonesia erupted in 1816. it was
considered as the largest known eruption in human
history. The eruption cause snowfall in the
northeastern united state and Canada. It affect
their agriculture lands, losing crops that caused
food shortage and increased human mortality.
• 2. ORBITAL CHANGES- Earth orbit can also cause climate
change. This was proposed by the MILANKOVITCH THEORY.
The Milankovitch theory states “that as the earth travels through
space around the sun, cyclical variations in three elements of
earth-sun geometry combine to produce variation in the amount
of solar energy that reaches earth.
- The three elements that have cyclical variation are:
a.) eccentricity
b.) obliquity
c.)precession
a.) ECCENTRICITY – is a term used to describe the shape of earth’s orbit around the sun.
The eccentricity influences seasonal differences; when the earth is

closest to the sun, it gets more solar radiation, if the perihelion


occurs
during the winter, the winter is less severe. If a hemisphere has its
summer while closest to the sun, summers are relatively warm.

b.) OBLIQUITY – is the variation of the tilt of earth’s axes away from the orbital plane.
The more tilt means more severe seasons-warmer summers and colder
winters; less tilt means less severe seasons- cooler summers and milder
winters.

c.) PRECESSION – is the change of orientation of earth’s rotation axis.


The change in the axis location changes the date of perihelion(closest
distance from sun) and this increases the seasonal contrast in one
hemisphere while decreasing it in the other hemisphere.
3. HUMAN ACTIVITIES – Human activities contribute to
climate change. The largest known contribution comes
from the burning of fossil fuels, which releases carbon
dioxide gas to the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases and
aerosols affect climate by altering incoming solar
radiation and outgoing infrared(thermal) radiation that are
part of earth’s energy balance.
• EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SOCIETY
- Climate change could cause severe affects to all life
Form around our planet. It direct affects the basic elements of
people’s lives like water, food, health, use of land, and the
environment.
- With the average global temperature which is
predicted to rise by 2 to 30C within the next fifty years, glaciers
will continue to melt faster. Climate change will increase
worldwide deaths from malnutrition and heat stress.

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