GCSE Geography

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Arafah Mim

Cards (14)

  • The Earth’s atmosphere is heating up too quickly because of global warming brought by the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect.
    • The globe is warming some places faster than others for instance up in the Arctic (risen by 4-5°C).
    • But overall, the average global temperature has risen to 1°C.
    • Climate change is linked to global warming as well. Extreme weather e.g. thunderstorms, wildfires, droughts, heatwaves and temperature increase.
  • Mitigation strategies include switching the reliance of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas to renewables like solar and wind energy.
  • Biomass is a form of renewable energy that involves the combustion of natural materials to create gas.
  • Hydro-electric is a renewable energy source that involves the generation of electricity from flowing water.
  • Carbon capture, a method used in Iceland, involves capturing carbon dioxide produced by burning of fossil fuels in power stations, compressing it, turning it into a liquid, and then storing it deep underground.
  • Afforestation is the process of replanting trees into forests, which can be used to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
  • The Paris Climate Conference in December, 2015, resulted in an agreement on the first truly global agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions and confront the impacts of climate change.
  • The countries agreed to hold temperature increase to well below 2°C and to make efforts to stay 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
  • The emissions reduction goals that countries presented so far would allow global temperature increase of at least 2.7°C.
  • The new global agreement includes national targets for 2025 or 2030 for most countries.
  • Every half a decade, the nations would come back to discuss about any new changes in climate change.
  • USA and China were not part of the Paris Climate Conference.
  • NICS/NEES disagreed with the Paris Climate Agreement because of wanting to freely burn fossil fuels to develop the country.
  • The Paris Agreement limit won’t protect all countries and locations from the strong negative impacts of climate change.