Lunes, Disyembre 12, 2011

"responding climate change"

              What is climate??? Climate is the average condition of the atmosphere at a locality or over an area. Climate is determined by the daily weather events and their seasonal patterns. It is  usually described in terms of a variety of climatic elements. in common practice these include temperature, humidity, amounts of rain and snow, duration of sunshine, cloud amounts, winds direction and speed, weather phenomena such as fog, frost, rain and thunderstorms. Climatology is the science dealing with climate.
              Climate is not an invariable quantity with time. Aside from the wide variations possible from year to year there are slow trends in climatic conditions, sometimes noticeable even in a single life span. There have been many attempt to attribute these trends to cyclical phenomena. Various climatic cycles have been proposed, foremost among them the so-called sunspot cycle.

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