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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Earth Changes | | | |  Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Crisis on Infinite Earths - OriginsThe title was originally conceived to be a celebration of DC's 50th anniversary; however, Marv Wolfman and Len Wein saw it as a chance to clean up DC's rather convoluted continuity (which was thought to have put many new readers off buying DC titles) that had built up over that time.
Wolfman came up with an idea which would reach across the entirety of the DC Universe and its 50-year history. First of all, he came up with the character of the Monitor who was initially a faceless character used in many of DC's titles over the course of ...
See also:Crisis on Infinite Earths, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Overview, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Origins, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Plot summary, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Post-Crisis, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Deaths during Crisis, Crisis on Infinite Earths - New characters and changes, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Criticisms, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Infinite Crisis, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Parody, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Action Figures, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Bibliography Read more here: » Crisis on Infinite Earths: Encyclopedia II - Crisis on Infinite Earths - Origins |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Crisis on Infinite Earths - Plot summary The story introduced readers to two near-omnipotent beings, the good Monitor and the evil Anti-Monitor, who had been created as a result of the same experiment that created the Multiverse. The Monitor had made cameo appearances in various DC comic book series for two years preceding the publication of the series and at first appeared to be a new supervillain, but with the onset of the Crisis, he was revealed to be working on a desperate plan to save the entire Multiverse from destruction at the hands of the Anti-Monitor. The Crisis se ...
See also:Crisis on Infinite Earths, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Overview, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Origins, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Plot summary, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Post-Crisis, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Deaths during Crisis, Crisis on Infinite Earths - New characters and changes, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Criticisms, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Infinite Crisis, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Parody, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Action Figures, Crisis on Infinite Earths - Bibliography Read more here: » Crisis on Infinite Earths: Encyclopedia II - Crisis on Infinite Earths - Plot summary |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - Solar interactions with Earth There are several ways that solar variations may affect Earth. Some variations, such as changes in the size of the Sun, are presently only of interest in the field of astronomy.
Solar variation - Changes in total irradiance.
Overall brightness may change.
The variation during recent cycles has been about 0.1%.
Changes corresponding to solar changes with periods of 9-13, 18-25, and >100 years been measured in sea-surface temperatures.
Since the Maunder Minimum, over the past 300 years there probably has been an increase of 0.1 ...
See also:Solar variation, Solar variation - History of study of solar variations, Solar variation - Solar activity, Solar variation - Sunspots, Solar variation - Solar cycles, Solar variation - Solar irradiance of Earth and its surface, Solar variation - Solar interactions with Earth, Solar variation - Changes in total irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in ultraviolet irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic flux, Solar variation - Other effects due to solar variation, Solar variation - Geomagnetic effects, Solar variation - Solar proton events, Solar variation - Galactic cosmic rays, Solar variation - Cloud effects, Solar variation - Carbon-14 production, Solar variation - Global warming, Solar variation - Solar variation in climate models, Solar variation - Solar variation theory Read more here: » Solar variation: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - Solar interactions with Earth |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - Other effects due to solar variation Interaction of solar particles, the solar magnetic field, and the Earth's magnetic field, cause variations in the particle and electromagnetic fields at the surface of the planet. Extreme solar events can affect electrical devices. Weakening of the Sun's magnetic field is believed to increase the number of interstellar cosmic rays which reach Earth's atmosphere, altering the types of particles reaching the surface. It has been speculated that a change in cosmic rays could cause an increase in certain types of clouds, affecting Earth's alb ...
See also:Solar variation, Solar variation - History of study of solar variations, Solar variation - Solar activity, Solar variation - Sunspots, Solar variation - Solar cycles, Solar variation - Solar irradiance of Earth and its surface, Solar variation - Solar interactions with Earth, Solar variation - Changes in total irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in ultraviolet irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic flux, Solar variation - Other effects due to solar variation, Solar variation - Geomagnetic effects, Solar variation - Solar proton events, Solar variation - Galactic cosmic rays, Solar variation - Cloud effects, Solar variation - Carbon-14 production, Solar variation - Global warming, Solar variation - Solar variation in climate models, Solar variation - Solar variation theory Read more here: » Solar variation: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - Other effects due to solar variation |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - Global warming Some researchers have correlated solar variation with changes in the Earth's average temperature and climate - sometimes finding an effect, and sometimes not. When effects are found they have tended to be greater than can be explained by direct response to the change in radiative forcing from solar change, so feedback or amplification mechanisms are required.[13] For a discussion of attribution of causes of current global warmin ...
See also:Solar variation, Solar variation - History of study of solar variations, Solar variation - Solar activity, Solar variation - Sunspots, Solar variation - Solar cycles, Solar variation - Solar irradiance of Earth and its surface, Solar variation - Solar interactions with Earth, Solar variation - Changes in total irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in ultraviolet irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic flux, Solar variation - Other effects due to solar variation, Solar variation - Geomagnetic effects, Solar variation - Solar proton events, Solar variation - Galactic cosmic rays, Solar variation - Cloud effects, Solar variation - Carbon-14 production, Solar variation - Global warming, Solar variation - Solar variation in climate models, Solar variation - Solar variation theory Read more here: » Solar variation: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - Global warming |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - History of study of solar variations The longest recorded aspect of solar variations are changes in sunspots. Shortly after astronomers began using the telescope in 1609, sunspots and their motions were observed. Initial study was focused on their nature and behavior. Although the physical aspects of sunspots was not identified until the 1900s, observations continued. Study was hampered during the 1600s and 1700s due to the low number of sunspots during what is now recognized as an extended period of low solar activity, this event named the Maunder Minimum. By the 1 ...
See also:Solar variation, Solar variation - History of study of solar variations, Solar variation - Solar activity, Solar variation - Sunspots, Solar variation - Solar cycles, Solar variation - Solar irradiance of Earth and its surface, Solar variation - Solar interactions with Earth, Solar variation - Changes in total irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in ultraviolet irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic flux, Solar variation - Other effects due to solar variation, Solar variation - Geomagnetic effects, Solar variation - Solar proton events, Solar variation - Galactic cosmic rays, Solar variation - Cloud effects, Solar variation - Carbon-14 production, Solar variation - Global warming, Solar variation - Solar variation in climate models, Solar variation - Solar variation theory Read more here: » Solar variation: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - History of study of solar variations |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - Solar activity
Solar variation - Sunspots.
Sunspots are relatively dark areas on the surface of the Sun and are thus cooler than its average surface. The number of sunspots correlates with the intensity of solar radiation. The variation is small (of the order of 1 W/m² or 0.1% of the total) and was only established once satellite measurements of solar variation became available in the 1980s. Based on work by Abbot, Foukal et al. (1977) realised that higher values of radiation are associated with more sunspots. Nimbus 7 (launch ...
See also:Solar variation, Solar variation - History of study of solar variations, Solar variation - Solar activity, Solar variation - Sunspots, Solar variation - Solar cycles, Solar variation - Solar irradiance of Earth and its surface, Solar variation - Solar interactions with Earth, Solar variation - Changes in total irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in ultraviolet irradiance, Solar variation - Changes in the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic flux, Solar variation - Other effects due to solar variation, Solar variation - Geomagnetic effects, Solar variation - Solar proton events, Solar variation - Galactic cosmic rays, Solar variation - Cloud effects, Solar variation - Carbon-14 production, Solar variation - Global warming, Solar variation - Solar variation in climate models, Solar variation - Solar variation theory Read more here: » Solar variation: Encyclopedia II - Solar variation - Solar activity |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Causes of global warming The climate system varies both through natural, "internal" processes as well as in response to variations in external "forcing" from both human and non-human causes, including changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch cycles), solar activity, and volcanic emissions as well as greenhouse gases. (See Climate change for further discussion of these forcing processes.) Climatologists accept that the earth has warmed recently. The cause or cause ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Causes of global warming |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Causes of global warming The climate system varies both through natural, "internal" processes as well as in response to variations in external "forcing" from both human and non-human causes, including changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch cycles), solar activity, and volcanic emissions as well as greenhouse gases. Climatologists accept that the earth has warmed recently but the cause or causes of this change is somewhat more controversial, especially outside the scientific community.
Atmospheric scientists know that adding carbon dioxide ( ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Causes of global warming |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Overview Terminology
'Global warming' is a specific case of the more general term 'climate change' (which can also refer to cooling, such as in Ice ages). Furthermore, the term is in principle neutral as to the causes, but in common usage, 'global warming' generally implies a human influence. Note, however, that the UNFCCC uses 'climate change' for human caused change and 'climate variability' for non-human caused change [3]. Some organizations use the term 'anthropogenic climate change' for human induced changes.< ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Overview |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Causes of global warming Main articles: attribution of recent climate change and scientific opinion on climate change
The climate system varies both through natural, "internal" processes as well as in response to variations in external "forcing" from both human and non-human causes, including changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch cycles), solar activity, and volcanic emissions as well as greenhouse gases. Climatologists accept that the earth has warmed recently but the cause or causes of this change is somewhat more ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Impact on Glaciers, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Causes of global warming |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Overview Terminology
'Global warming' is a specific case of the more general term 'climate change' (which can also refer to cooling, such as in Ice ages). Furthermore, the term is in principle neutral as to the causes, but in common usage, 'global warming' generally implies a human influence. Note, however, that the UNFCCC uses 'climate change' for human caused change and 'climate variability' for non-human caused change [3]. Some organizations use the term 'anthropogenic climate change' for human induced changes.< ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Impact on Glaciers, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Overview |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming "Mitigation of global warming" covers all actions aimed at reducing the extent or likelihood of global warming. The world's primary international agreement on combating climate change is the Kyoto Protocol. Various other strategies include development of new technologies, wind power, nuclear power, renewable energy, biodiesel, electric cars (and hybrids), and fuel cells, Energy conservation, carbon taxes and carbon sequestration schemes.
Adaptation stategies accept some warming as a given and focus on preventing or reducing undesirabl ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming "Mitigation of global warming" covers all actions aimed at reducing the extent or likelihood of global warming. The world's primary international agreement on combating climate change is the Kyoto Protocol. Various other strategies include development of new technologies, wind power, nuclear power, renewable energy, biodiesel, electric cars (and hybrids), and fuel cells, Energy conservation, carbon taxes and carbon sequestration schemes.
Adaptation stategies accept some warming a ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Warming of the Earth Relative to 1860-1900 the global (land and sea) temperature has increased by 0.75 °C. Temperatures in the lower troposphere have increased between 0.12 and 0.22 °C per decade since 1979. Over the past one or two thousand years before 1850, world temperature is believed to have been relatively stable, with various (possibly local) fluctuations, such as the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age.
The length of time over which one is interested in change may vary according to the focus of the user of the term and the data ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Warming of the Earth |
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| | | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Earth's atmosphere - Composition Source for figures above: NASA. Carbon dioxide and methane updated (to 1998) by IPCC TAR table 6.1 [1]. The NASA total was 17 ppmv over 100%, and CO2 was increased here by 15 ppmv. To normalize, N2 should be reduced by about 25 ppmv and O2 by about 7 ppmv.
Minor components of air not listed above include:
The mean molecular mass of air is 28.97 g/mol.
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See also:Earth's atmosphere, Earth's atmosphere - Temperature and the atmospheric layers, Earth's atmosphere - Various atmospheric regions, Earth's atmosphere - Pressure, Earth's atmosphere - Thickness of the atmosphere, Earth's atmosphere - Composition, Earth's atmosphere - Heterosphere, Earth's atmosphere - Density and mass, Earth's atmosphere - The evolution of the Earth's atmosphere Read more here: » Earth's atmosphere: Encyclopedia II - Earth's atmosphere - Composition |
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| | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming "Mitigation of global warming" covers all actions aimed at reducing the extent or likelihood of global warming. The world's primary international agreement on combating climate change is the Kyoto Protocol. Various other strategies include development of new technologies, wind power, nuclear power, renewable energy, biodiesel, electric cars (and hybrids), and fuel cells, Energy conservation, carbon taxes and carbon sequestration schemes.
Adaptation stategies accept some warming a ...
See also:Global warming, Global warming - Overview, Global warming - Warming of the Earth, Global warming - Causes of global warming, Global warming - Greenhouse gas emissions, Global warming - Alternative theories, Global warming - Climate models, Global warming - Issues, Global warming - Public controversy, Global warming - Effects, Global warming - Effects on ecosystems, Global warming - Impact on Glaciers, Global warming - Destabilisation of ocean currents, Global warming - Environmental refugees, Global warming - Spread of disease, Global warming - Financial effects, Global warming - Possible beneficial effects, Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming Read more here: » Global warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming |
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| | | | | | Earth Changes: Encyclopedia II - Earth's atmosphere - The evolution of the Earth's atmosphere The history of the Earth's atmosphere prior to one billion years ago is poorly understood, but the following presents a plausible sequence of events. This remains an active area of research.
The modern atmosphere is sometimes referred to as Earth's "third atmosphere", in order to distinguish the current chemical composition from two notably different previous compositions. The original atmosphere was primarily helium and hydroge ...
See also:Earth's atmosphere, Earth's atmosphere - Temperature and the atmospheric layers, Earth's atmosphere - Various atmospheric regions, Earth's atmosphere - Pressure, Earth's atmosphere - Thickness of the atmosphere, Earth's atmosphere - Composition, Earth's atmosphere - Heterosphere, Earth's atmosphere - Density and mass, Earth's atmosphere - The evolution of the Earth's atmosphere Read more here: » Earth's atmosphere: Encyclopedia II - Earth's atmosphere - The evolution of the Earth's atmosphere |
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