Click here to watch the NASA video Temperature Puzzle. Many people are quick to

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Click here to watch the NASA video Temperature Puzzle. Many people are quick to dismiss global warming after a cold winter or a late summer. After watching the video, how would you respond to this person? Why is it difficult to base climate on a single season’s weather? Use data and examples to support your answer. (Note: please base your discussion on what you have learned from the video and textbook reading. This is NOT meant to be a discussion of political ideology.)

In your response to another student, critique their discussion. What would you add to what they presented? Discuss both strengths and weaknesses (if any).

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Answer:

The global climate rely on various factors such as solar radiation, energy recieved at earth surface, energy reflected, absorbed etc. That is why seasons changes on the earth, as artic region gets depleated their ice sheets due to these facts. Oceanic water warms and gets evaporated in the atmosphere which get converted into clouds which causing to keeps the planet cools as sun energy is not able to hit the earth. Another one of the major cause of global increase in temperature are emission of greenhouse gases by burning of fossil fuel, excess use of fuels in industries which causing depleation in ozone layer.

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