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Climate change
The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.
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Adaptation
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Adjustment or preparation of natural or human systems to a new or changing environment which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)
Natural environment; Climate change
A group of chemicals composed of carbon and fluorine only. These chemicals (predominantly CF4 and C2F6) were introduced as alternatives, along with hydrofluorocarbons, to the ozone depleting ...
Glacier
Natural environment; Climate change
A multi-year surplus accumulation of snowfall in excess of snowmelt on land and resulting in a mass of ice at least 0.1 km2 in area that shows some evidence of movement in response to gravity. A ...
Stratosphere
Natural environment; Climate change
Region of the atmosphere between the troposphere and mesosphere, having a lower boundary of approximately 8 km at the poles to 15 km at the equator and an upper boundary of approximately 50 km. ...
Climate lag
Natural environment; Climate change
The delay that occurs in climate change as a result of some factor that changes only very slowly. For example, the effects of releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere occur gradually over ...
100-year flood levels
Natural environment; Climate change
Severe flood levels with a one-in-100 likelihood of occurring in any given year.
Precession
Natural environment; Climate change
The wobble over thousands of years of the tilt of the Earths axis with respect to the plane of the solar system.
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