Climate Change Flashcards
(11 cards)
it is measured
over a long period of time,
Climate
weather can change from day to day, or from year to year.
Weather
includes seasonal temperature and rainfall averages, and wind patterns.
Climate
is the long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place.
Climate Change
Cause of current climate change is?
Human Activity (Burning fossil fuels, gas, oil, and coal)
This rise in the planet’s temperature
Global Warming
this agreement brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.
Paris Agreement
Its central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise
this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Paris Agreement
What day did they sign the Paris Agreement?
22 April 2016 at UN Headquarters in New York
This was by far the
largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day.
Paris Agreement
There are now ______ countries that have ratified the Paris
Agreement.
186
