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Climate sensitivity
The effects of increasing greenho...,
What is climate sensitivity,
What is a forcing
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California drought
What do the rings of blue oak tre...,
What does the griffin use to dete...,
What is found in the paper
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Monsoon
What does monsoon refer to,
Why are many developing countries...,
What is the fundamental driver of...
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Green sahara
What happened to transform todays...,
What is the event commonly called,
What was the african humid period...
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Green surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth's climate?
What climatic conditions can stro...,
While it may be obvious that the ...,
The atmosphere responds to the ex...
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What factors determine climate?
Climate is usually described in t...,
What are external factors that af...,
How does climate evolve
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Further study on internal variability and the Monsoon
What is the walker circulation,
What happens in a normal year of ...,
What happens in an el nino of the...
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How do climate models work?
What are most sophisticated clima...,
What is a climate model,
Each component represents a stagg...
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Climate modelling 101
What are climate models and why a...,
The term climate system refers to,
Uses of climate modelling
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Carbon cycle and carbon in the earth system
Terrestrial c is cycled between,
On land c occurs primarily,
Co2 emissions from land use chang...
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Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change
Places experience forest transiti...,
Forest transitions slow the accum...,
How do forest transitions improve...
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Detection of climate change, attribution of causes, and projections
Using what estimates strongly sug...,
Where are anthropogenic aerosols ...,
An indirect effect of aerosols is to
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Ecological Consequences of Sea Ice Decline
What are some direct effects of s...,
Example of how effecting primary ...,
What are some indirect effects of...
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State of the world's plants
How much of the global plant spec...,
How many vascular plant species a...,
How many flowering plant species ...
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Houghton Ch 5 (Modelling the climate)
What does setting up a model of t...,
Why is water vapour in modelling ...,
Why is to forecast the weather fo...
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Houghton Ch 3 (The greenhouse gases)
What are the greenhouse gases,
What are the important greenhouse...,
What characteristics determine a ...
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Butterfly case study
Why is an inability to spread int...,
What has been proposed as a pragm...
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Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming
What is the great acceleration,
What locations are particularly s...,
The accelerated increase in speci...
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Why wildfires have gotten worse and what we can do about them
What are mega fires,
What forces shaped this historica...,
It provided a natural mechanism f...
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Coral Reefs
Why will coral reefs have to be r...,
How bad is the coral reef situation,
What has been been the major driv...
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Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change
By far most observations of clima...,
Species differ in their physiolog...,
Expected distributional shifts in...
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How does climate change cause extinction?
What are the other potential prox...,
Proximate factors causing extinct...,
Proximate factors causing extinct...
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Dessler Ch 5
Why does the greenhouse effect occur,
Taken together diatomic nitrogen ...,
Ozone is absolutely necessary for...
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Houghton Ch6
What are sres scenarios,
What are the four different sres ...,
What is required to allow for reg...
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Dessler Ch 6
What is radiative forcing,
Combining all types of aerosols t...,
Over all human land use changes h...
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BBC Bitesize - Higher Geography - Global climate change
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