Conceptualizing Climate Change in the Past and Present

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  1. 2. Scientists call the specific causes of climate change ________
  2. 3. the author of the 1962 book “Silent Spring” which is credited with helping humans develop an awareness of their potential to alter the earth
  3. 7. the field of study of past climate events that focuses on archives of society
  4. 9. a piece of evidence natural or man made that indicates past climate.
  5. 10. man made collections of evidence about climate in the past ex. Temperature records
  6. 12. Subsystem of earth that focusses on living organisms
  7. 13. natural reaction to climate change that amplifies the initial direction of climate change
  8. 15. in the context of climate history, the series of events that leads from a climate impact to a societal response
  9. 16. a point of no return when changes in climate system become irreversible
  10. 17. a natural reaction to climate change that acts against the initial direction of climate change
  11. 18. patterns of earths movement in relation to the sun that influence the sun’s impact on climate over time
  12. 20. subsystem of earth that focuses on water, ice, water vapor
  13. 21. Subsystem of earth that focuses on earth and rock
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  1. 1. the idea that climate sets the course for human history
  2. 4. proposed new epoch that started in 1950 to describe the time period characterized by substantial human influence on the climate
  3. 5. Collections of natural sources that contain evidence about climate in the past ex. A glacier with gasses trapped beneath the layers
  4. 6. subsystem of earth that focusses on air
  5. 8. current geological epoch that started about 11.7 thousand years ago
  6. 11. a complex process of changes in the natural world
  7. 14. the field of study of climate history that focuses on archives of nature aka Historical Climatology
  8. 19. a group of scholars who generally share an object of study, the type of evidence used to study the object used for analyzing that evidence
  9. 20. new field focusing on the relationship between past climate conditions and and human societies, abbreviation
  10. 22. field of study that attempts to explain the forces and interactions that drive climate change