Climate

Collecting an ice core in Greenland, a record of climate change. By Helle Astrid Kjær – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64276278

In this section we bring together knowledge of the Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geosphere to examine how climate changes, and how we can distinguish between natural climate change, which has affected the Earth throughout its existence, and anthropogenic climate change: much faster changes brought on by human activities.

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