TERM 1
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate CHange
IPCC
DEFINITION 1
international scientific body established by the UN in 1988 to
evaluate scientific studies related to any aspect of climate
change to give thourough and objective assessment of data
TERM 2
Climate VS Weather
DEFINITION 2
Climate: long term patterns or trendsweather: meteorological
conditions in a given place on a gien day
TERM 3
Climate change
DEFINITION 3
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the
statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods
ranging from decades to millions of years.
TERM 4
what best describes radiative
forces:
DEFINITION 4
factors that alter climate,events that increase future
changelong patterns in meteorological conditionsnatural
factors, like volcanoes that affect the amount of sunlight that
reaches the earth
TERM 5
current atmospheric CO2 levels are at
390pkpm. what is upper limit that we can live
with
DEFINITION 5
560ppm
