Ch 7: Climate Change and Energy Production

________ can provide economical and technical support to LEDCs.

________ and negative feedback mechanisms are associated with climate change and may involve long time lags.

________ does not emit any greenhouse gases, acidic gases, or any harmful gases related to the deterioration of the environment.

________ and climate are affected by ocean and atmospheric circulatory systems.

________: not sustainable to the environment, contributes to climate change and pollution.

Involves reducing the ________ trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, either by reducing these gases, or enhancing them which accumulate and store them.

________ contribute to the majority of human energy supply and these vary widely in the impacts of their production and emissions and their use if unexpected to increase tp met global energy demand.

________ varies from place to place and can be dependent on financial and technical resources.

________: attempts to reduce the causes of climate change.

Protecting and enhancing carbon sinks through land management ________ from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.

________ are increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

________: attempts to manage the impacts of climate change.

________ describes how the atmosphere behaves over relatively long periods of time whereas weather describes the conditions in the atmosphere over a short period of time.

________ is normal and necessary condition for life on earth.

________: is a feedback that increases initial warming, ________ accelerates temperature rise.

________: is a process where climate feedback decreases the severity of some initial change, ________ slows down temperature increase.

Enhancing carbon dioxide absorption by the oceans through ________ to encourage biological pump.

________ are complex and there is a degree of uncertainty regarding the accuracy of their productions.

It is the use of technology and substitution to reduce resource inputs an emissions per ________.

________ is a low carbon low emission non- renewable resources but is controversial due to radioactive waste and potential scale of any accident.

________ are non- renewable, as they can not be naturally retrieved at the same rate in which it is being used up.

________ is the average weather patterns over many years for a location on earth.

________ contribute to the majority of humankinds energy supply, and they differentiate in their impacts of production and their emissions, which is expected to meet global energy demands.

________ are stored as solar energy.

________ are formed through a natural process, such as in anaerobic decomposition (buried dead animals) which contains energy.

energy which can be gathered from natural sources which is able to be replenished faster than they are used

is a feedback that increases initial warming, positive feedback accelerates temperature rise

is a process where climate feedback decreases the severity of some initial change, negative feedback slows down temperature increase

is a relative measure of how much heat a known mass of a GHG traps a number of years compared to the same mass of carbon dioxide

attempts to reduce the causes of climate change

attempts to manage the impacts of climate change