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Global warming |
The rise in average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans |
Since the 19th century and is projected to continue |
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Green house effect |
A process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases and is re-radiated in all directions |
Results in an elevation of the average surface temperature above what it would be in the absence of the gases |
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Climate change |
A significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades millions of years |
Factors include oceanic processes, human-induced alterations of the natural world etc |
