Examples of climate in the following topics:
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- A common misconception about global climate change is that a specific weather event occurring in a particular region (for example, a very cool week in June in central Indiana) is evidence of global climate change.
- However, a cold week in June is a weather-related event and not a climate-related one.
- Climate can be considered "average" weather.
- Climate refers to long-term, predictable atmospheric conditions of a specific area.
- This map illustrates the various climate conditions around the world.
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- Global climate change can be understood by analyzing past historical climate data, such as atmospheric CO2 concentrations in ice cores.
- Climate change can be understood by approaching three areas of study: (1) evidence of current and past global climate change, (2) causes of past and present-day global climate change, and (3) ancient and current results of climate change.
- It is helpful to keep these three different aspects of climate change clearly separated when consuming media reports about global climate change.
- It is common for reports and discussions about global climate change to confuse the data showing that earth's climate is changing with the factors that drive this climate change.
- The Medieval Climate Anomaly occurred between 900 and 1300 AD.
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- Scientists do agree, however, that climate change will alter regional climates, including rainfall and snowfall patterns, making habitats less hospitable to the species living in them.
- The warming trend will shift colder climates toward the north and south poles, forcing species to move with their adapted climate norms while facing habitat gaps along the way.
- Changing climates also throw off species' delicate timing adaptations to seasonal food resources and breeding times.
- Some climates will completely disappear.
- The rate of decline observed in recent years is far greater than previously predicted by climate models.
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- Since it is not possible to go back in time to directly observe and measure climate, scientists use indirect evidence to determine the drivers, or factors, that may be responsible for climate change.
- The variation in the sun's intensity is the second natural factor responsible for climate change.
- Finally, volcanic eruptions are a third natural driver of climate change.
- Volcanic eruptions can last a few days, but the solids and gases released during an eruption can influence the climate over a period of a few years, causing short-term climate changes.
- Greenhouse gases are probably the most significant drivers of the climate.
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- Results of climate change, past and present, have been documented and include species extinction, rising sea levels, and effects on organisms.
- Scientists have geological evidence of the consequences of long-ago climate change.
- Changes in climate can negatively affect organisms.
- Organisms that had adapted to wet and warm climatic conditions, such as annual rainfall of 300–400 cm (118–157 in) and 20 °C–30 °C (68 °F–86 °F) in the tropical wet forest, may not have been able to survive the Permian climate change.
- A number of global events have occurred that may be attributed to recent climate change during our lifetimes.
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- Generally, biome classification is determined by the climate and geography of an area.
- Each biome consists of communities that have adapted to the different climate and environment inside the biome.
- The distribution of these biomes shows that the same biome can occur in geographically distinct areas with similar climates.
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- Soil formation is the result of a combination of five factors: parent material, climate, topography, biological factors, and time.
- Five factors account for soil formation: parent material, climate, topography, biological factors, and time.
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- Human responses to climate change and species loss include national and international legal measures, as well as the creation of preserves.
- In relation to global warming, The Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that came out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that committed countries to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2012, was ratified by some countries, but spurned by others.
- Meanwhile, climate scientists predict the resulting costs to human societies and biodiversity will be high.
- Detail the benefits and limitations of different human responses to climate change and species loss, such as using preserves to conserve species
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- Soil quality and climate are the major determinants of plant distribution and growth.
- Soil quality and climate are significant to plant distribution and growth.
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- Ecosystems sustain life-supporting functions and produce natural capital, such as biomass production (food, fuel, fiber and medicine), the regulation of climate, global biogeochemical cycles, water filtration, soil formation, erosion control, flood protection, and many other natural features of scientific, historical, economic, or intrinsic value.
- There are also many subcategories of ecology, such as ecosystem ecology, animal ecology, and plant ecology, which look at the differences and similarities of various plants in various climates and habitats.