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PREPARED BY ANJU A
KEYI SAHIB TRAINING
COLLEGE
Climate scientists have since
Global the mid-20th century gathered
detailed observations of
warming, the various weather phenomena
(such as temperatures,
precipitation, and storms) and
phenomenon of related influences on climate
(such as ocean currents and the
of increasing atmosphere’s chemical
composition).
average air
temperatures
near the
surface These data indicate that Earth’s
climate has changed over
of Earth over almost every conceivable
timescale since the beginning
the past one of geologic time and that the
influence of human activities
to two since at least the beginning of
the Industrial Revolution has
been deeply woven into the
centuries. very fabric of climate change.
CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING
Almost 100% of the observed temperature increase over
the last 50 years has been due to the increase in the
atmosphere of greenhouse gas concentrations like water
vapour, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and ozone.
This "idle load" across all U.S. households adds up to the output
of 50 large power plants in the U.S. So don't leave fully charged
devices plugged into your home's outlets, unplug rarely used
devices or plug them into power strips and timers, and adjust
your computers and monitors to automatically power down to
the lowest power mode when not in use.