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2.1 Climate Change
IB HL Geography Climate Change Causes
Term | Definition |
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Adaptation | Measures to reduce human and natural systems vunelrability to climate change |
Albedo | The amount of solar energy reflected back into the Earths atmosphere |
Vulnerability | The degrees of how humans and natural systems can cope with climate change |
Mitigation | Attempts to reduce causes of climate change |
Anthropogenic | Human-related proccesses/impacts |
Resilience | Ability of a population/natural system to absorb change |
Global warming | The increase in temperatures around the world, taken into account since the 1960s |
The greenhouse effect | When gasses such as carbon dioxide and methane allow short-wave radiation to pass through the atmosphere . However traps long-wave radiation leading to the warming of the Earth. |
The enhanced greenhouse effect | The increasing amount of trapped greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere as a result of human actvitites, including global warming. |