Geography - Climate Change

Climate Change - 

• the change of global temperature
• periods of cold to hot
• this is a natural process

Greenhouse Effect -

• heat escaping for the earth's surface
• reabsorbed and reflected by certain gases in the atmosphere
• it is natural and vital

Enhanced Greenhouse Effect -

• impact of people incresing the GHE

• caused by the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

Global warming is the heating up of our planet.

the four main greenhouse gases;

Carbon Dioxide - produced by; powerstations, vehicles that burn fossil fuels, deforestation, buring of rainforests

Nitrous Oxide - emitted from; car exhausts, power stations, fertilister

Methane - released from; waste dumps, cows stomaches, rotting rice roots, farms

CFC's (Chloroflourocarbons) - come from; aerosols, plastic foam, fridges.

THESE ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS OF GHG'S

The Effects of Global Warming on The Uk;

Gains

• longer growing season
• trees grow up north
• area and yeils of…