Flashcards: Effects of global warming

El Niño /ɛl ˈniːnjoʊ/ (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈniɲo]) is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (commonly called ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (between approximately the International Date Line and 120°W), including off the Pacific coast of South America.

Drunken trees, tilted trees, or a drunken forest, is a stand of trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment.

Crucial to the survival of a glacier is its mass balance or surface mass balance (SMB), the difference between accumulation and ablation (sublimation and melting).

This article is about the physical impacts of climate change.

There are expected to be various long-term effects of global warming.

The effects of global warming are the environmental and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Sea level rise has been estimated to be on average between +2.

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Climate change has brought about possibly permanent alterations to our planet’s geological, biological and ecological systems.

The effects of global warming include effects on human health.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has organized many of the risks of climate change into five "reasons for concern.

Climate change feedback is important in the understanding of global warming because feedback processes may amplify or diminish the effect of each climate forcing, and so play an important part in determining the climate sensitivity and future climate state.

Regional effects of global warming are long-term significant changes in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region due to global warming.

A shutdown or slowdown of the thermohaline circulation is an effect of global warming on a major ocean circulation.

This article is about climate change and ecosystems.