How Does Climate Change Affect Climate Change

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Climate change is often discussed as a change affected by human activity, in contrary as the result of Earth’s natural process. In environmental policy, the expression of anthropogenic global warming is associated with the identical meaning of climate change. Noted Changes in the Climate System Warming of the climate system is set to be unambiguous, as shown by observations. Since the 1950s these changes have been unprecedented; therefore there have been clear consequences such as the atmosphere and the ocean have warmed followed by the decrease of snow and ice quantities. In addition to that the sea level has been increasing and the greenhouse gases have risen. • Atmosphere: Since 1850 there has been without comparison a warmer decade than…show more content…
The polar cap glaciers have continued to shrink and all across the globe glaciers have reduced in size. Another distinctive change is the Arctic sea ice and Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover; these two natural occurrences have continued to decrease during the last few years. • Sea Level: The rate at which the sea level has risen since the middle of the 19th century “has been larger than the mean rate during the previous two millennia. Over the period 1901 to 2010, global mean sea level rose by 0.19 [0.17 to 0.21] m.” (Key points in IPCC climate change report - FT.com. (n.d.). Retrieved April 02, 2016, from http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cd6593d0-2761-11e3-8feb-00144feab7de.html#axzz43dEz9TJJ). • Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles: In the last 10 years there has been an increase in the amount of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. They have saturated the earth’s atmosphere to unprecedented levels. There are levels that have not been seen in the last 800,000 years. After industrialisation carbon dioxide concentrations have risen by

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