Climate Change and Ocean Acidification
What causes global warming or climate change? The burning of fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which results in the greenhouse effect—less heat can be re-radiated away from the earth, thus raising the temperature of the atmosphere and ocean. In the past...
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Oxford University Press
2015
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199996698.003.0009 |
| Summary: | What causes global warming or climate change? The burning of fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which results in the greenhouse effect—less heat can be re-radiated away from the earth, thus raising the temperature of the atmosphere and ocean. In the past... |
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