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Final Exam Essay GENV 131 - Global Environment Issues
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GENV 131 - Global Environment Issues An investigation of the scientific principles behind environmental issues and practical inquiry-based approaches to environment concerns in our local and global communities. The course integrates theoretical knowledge about the environment with real-life activi...

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  • January 12, 2021
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, After attending the world conference on global warming and climate change I can help our

community do better. Climate change and global warming is something that effects our

community but there are solutions.


Global Warming & Climate Change


Climate change and global warming are sometimes used interchangeably to mean the

same thing. However, in our science textbook, Environment: the Science Behind the Stories by

Jay Withgott and Matthew Laposata, climate change is defined as the “Systematic change in

aspects of the Earth’s climate, such as temperature, precipitation, and storm intensity.

Generally refers today to the current warming trend in global temperatures in the many

associated climate changes.” Global warming, in the same textbook, is defined as “an increase

in Earth's average temperature. The term is most frequently used in reference to the

pronounced warming trend of recent decades. Global warming is one aspect of global climate

change and in turn drives other components of climate change” (Withgott, 2020). The main

difference between the two is that global warming is, although a big part, only one aspect of

climate change.


The Science Behind Global Warming and Climate Change


To understand climate change and global warming, one must understand some of the

science behind it first. The atmosphere being layered is the first thing one must understand.

There are four layers. First, and closest to us, there is the troposphere which holds the air we

breath. Then, on top of that, there is the stratosphere which has the majority of the ozone

concentration and also has “little vertical mixing, so once substances (including pollutants)


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