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CAUSES AND

EFFECTS OF
CLIMATE
CHANGE
Date: 24th November 2012
Presented by: NARAINO MAJIE
Nabiilah
CONTENT
Definition of Climate Change
Causes of Climate Change-
Natural Causes & Human
Causes
Effects of Climate Change
DEFINITION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
It is a change which is attributed
directly or indirectly to human
activity that alters the composition
of the global atmosphere and which
is in addition to natural climate
variability observed over
comparative time periods
CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
NATURAL CAUSES
Volcanic eruptions
Ocean currents
Earth orbital changes-
More tilt = warmer summers & colder
winters
Less tilt = cooler summers & milder
winters
Solar Variation
HUMAN CAUSES (Anthropogenic or Man-made
causes)

Greenhouse gases
Deforestation
Coal mining
Burning of fossil fuels
Industrial processes
Agriculture
Deforestation
Coal Mining
Burning of Fossil Fuels
Industrial processes
Agriculture
EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
RISE IN SEA LEVEL

Melting ice sheets Sea level rise


HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE GLOBE
EXTREME DROUGHT
DECLINE IN CROP PRODUCTIVITY
ECOSYSTEMS ARE CHANGING
HURRICANES
RISE IN TEMPERATURE
CARBON DIOXIDE ACIDIFIES SEAWATER

CO2 Atmosphere CO2

Ocean

shelled-critters

CO2 and carbonate (which plankton use to make


shells) combine in the ocean.
The ocean is already more acidic than it was 50
years ago.

Source: Alfred-Wegener-Institute
THANK YOU

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