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Climate change
The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.
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Vulnerability
Natural environment; Climate change
The degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes. Vulnerability is a function of the character, ...
Fuel switching
Natural environment; Climate change
In general, this is substituting one type of fuel for another. In the climate-change discussion it is implicit that the substituted fuel produces lower carbon emissions per unit energy produced than ...
Ozone precursors
Natural environment; Climate change
Chemical compounds, such as carbon monoxide, methane, non-methane hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, which in the presence of solar radiation react with other chemical compounds to form ozone, mainly ...
Global average temperature
Natural environment; Climate change
An estimate of Earths mean surface air temperature averaged over the entire planet.
Sea surface temperature
Natural environment; Climate change
The temperature in the top several feet of the ocean, measured by ships, buoys and drifters.
Wastewater
Natural environment; Climate change
Water that has been used and contains dissolved or suspended waste materials.
Infrared radiation
Natural environment; Climate change
Infrared radiation consists of light whose wavelength is longer than the red colour in the visible part of the spectrum, but shorter than microwave radiation. Infrared radiation can be perceived as ...
