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Geography: Climate Change: 2 of 2

Weather Short term state of the atmosphere in a particular location.
Climate Long term state of the atmosphere (usually 30 years or more)
Climate change Long-term shift in the state of the atmosphere.
Greenhouse gasses Gasses which absorb and re-emit infrared radiation.
Mitigation Actions that prevent or reduce the causes of climate change.
strategies
Adaptation Actions that help people cope with the effects of climate change.
strategies

Natural Factor Time- Diagram
Frame

100,000
Orbital Change
years

Sunspots 11 years

Volcanic Unpredi
Eruptions ctable

Responses To Climate Change

Mitigation Adaptation
Electric vehicles, such as Tesla. Flood resilient housing, such as elevated houses in Northern Bangladesh.

Carbon Capture and Storage, such as Boundary Dam Power Station. Farmer field schools, such as saltwater growing techniques in Southern Bangladesh.

International agreements, such as Glasgow 2021 declaration to ban and Rainwater storage, such as Hafirs in Sudan for irrigation.
reverse deforestation.