Climate Change Facts

Imperative facts on the Earth’s climate and how it is changing

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This graph of global annual temperature averages over the past 2000 years was constructed using climate proxies. Direct data on climate only goes back to ~1890, while proxies allow us to study the climate of the past through indirect methods such as ice cores & tree rings

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As seen in the graph, from roughly 1450 to the late 1800’s, which marks the beginning of the human industrial revolution, the Earth was actually in a slight cooling period known as ’Little Ice Age’. From then on, temperatures have sky rocketed. The data is clear

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The primary greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are CO2, water vapor, methane, ozone, and nitrous oxide. Greenhouse gases contain 3 or more atoms linked together, creating a flexible molecule capable of holding high energy infrared particles, trapping them in our atmosphere

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