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What is Climate Change and Global Warming?
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
WHAT ARE CDM AND JI PROJECTS?
WHAT ARE CER's AND ERU's? |
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Global climate dynamics, however, are unpredictable. Climatic models show that the short to medium impacts of an increase in the atmosphere's concentration of greenhouse gases will likely lead to increased warming in some areas with deep cooling in others. For example, consider the impact of the disruption of the gulf stream, the oceanic system that keeps the British Isles a comfortable temperature at the same latitude as Moscow. The unpredictability of the global climate system's response to an increase in carbon dioxide has recast the term "global warming" into its now accepted "global climate change".
Certain gases, such as chlorofluorocarbons, contribute two-fold to climate change by simultaneously trapping reflected heat and thinning the protective ozone layer. This ozone depletion reduces the atmosphere's ability to absorb and reflect solar radiation. As a result more solar radiation is able to reach the earth's surface and potentially accelerate the process of climate change.
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