Global climate change
What Global climate change means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
The long-term shift in average weather patterns, driven mainly by increased greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
Long-term shifts in weather patterns, sea level and ecosystems worldwide, caused by rising surface temperatures.
Topics that use Global climate change
- Global climate change (AQA GCSE)
- Human activities which contribute to an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Climate change
- Agricultural emissions and waste decomposition
- Agriculture and waste as methane sources
- Bias and source credibility
- Combustion of fossil fuels
- Communicating results
- Complexity and uncertainty in environmental systems
- Critical evaluation of media and secondary sources
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