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Climate change is caused by factors that include oceanic processes ( such as oceanic circulation ), variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions, and human-induced alterations of the natural world ; these latter effects are currently causing global warming, and " climate change " is often used to describe human-specific impacts.
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Climate change is thought to have led to the emigration of Chacoans and the eventual abandonment of the canyon, beginning with a 50-year drought in 1130.
Climate change may also affect the biological pump in the future by warming and stratifying the surface ocean, thus reducing the supply of limiting nutrients to surface waters.
Climate change may occur over long and short timescales from a variety of factors ; recent warming is discussed in global warming.
* Committee on Climate Change, an independent body established by the UK Government to advise on climate change policy
Climate change devastated tropical rainforests causing the extinction of many plant and animal species.
Climate change and habitat destruction, they argue, are global, more complex, and demand far deeper transformations of the economy, the culture and political life.
Climate change apparent since the 1920s disrupted traditional Kalaallit life by producing milder weather that reduced the island's seal populations but filled the waters offshore with cod.
Benjamin D. Santer, a climate change researcher, wrote: The Global Climate Coalition-a less than disinterested party-has made serious allegations regarding the scientific integrity of the Lead Authors of Chapter 8, and of the IPCC process itself.
A main activity of the IPCC is publishing special reports on topics relevant to the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ), an international treaty that acknowledges the possibility of harmful climate change.
* The World Bank climate change and water sector, 2009 Water and Climate Change: Understanding the Risks and Making Climate-Smart Investment Decisions Retrieved 10-24-2011.
* The World Bank – Climate Change and concerns over water resources The World Bank's portal to climate change and water publications.
* Climate Change Freeview Video Interview 2006 – Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Laureate ( 1995 ) for work on ozone depletion discusses climate change.
In 1999, Paul Ehrlich and others advocated public policies to improve the dissemination of valid environmental scientific knowledge and discourage junk science: ' The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports offer an antidote to junk science by articulating the current consensus on the prospects for climate change, by outlining the extent of the uncertainties, and by describing the potential benefits and costs of policies to address climate change.
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Climate is influenced by the temperatures of the surface waters and water currents as well as winds.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) has concluded that " of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.
Botswana is a party to the following international agreements: Diamond Industry, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection and Wetlands.
Costa Rica is party to many environmental treaties, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Environmental Modification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol, the Ramsar Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Desertification Convention, the Endangered Species Convention, the Basel Convention, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Marine Dumping, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Climate can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these elements and their variations over shorter periods.
Climate ( from Ancient Greek klima, meaning inclination ) is commonly defined as the weather averaged over a long period.
The difference between climate and weather is usefully summarized by the popular phrase " Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
In some cases, the term is also used with a presumption of human causation, as in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ).
* The Study of Climate on Alien Worlds ; Characterizing atmospheres beyond our Solar System is now within our reach Kevin Heng July-August 2012 American Scientist
* Climate Change Capital, Climate Change Capital Limited ( CCC ) is an investment manager and advisory group specialising in the opportunities generated by the global transition to a low carbon economy.
According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) secretariat, the overwhelming direct cause of deforestation is agriculture.
El Salvador is party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, CITES, Basel Convention, Partial Test Ban Treaty, Montreal Protocol, Ramsar Convention.
The most widely known protocol in international environmental law is the Kyoto Protocol, which followed from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
He is the author or editor of several books including Global Effects of Environmental Pollution ( 1970 ), The Ocean in Human Affairs ( 1989 ), Global Climate Change ( 1989 ), The Greenhouse Debate Continued ( 1992 ), and Hot Talk, Cold Science ( 1997 ).
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