Forecast Earth The Story of Climate Scientist Inez Fung (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 1: Meet Inez Fung
Chapter 1: Meet Inez Fung
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Sea levels are slowly rising. In some parts of the world, less snow is falling in winter and spring flowers are budding earlier.
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Inez Fung has done much of herwork in the United States, as a NASA scientist. But herjourney started halfway around the world in Hong Kong.
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But the movie showed a lightning- pauses beside a lake near the base of quick climate change. Sea surface temperatures in the northern Mount Hood (oppohemisphere dropped overnight.
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The problem now, however, is the opposite of a deep freeze. The 20th century was the Carbon dioxide is warmest in the past 1,000 years.
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Carbon dioxide has continued to build up in the air, and so have other greenhouse gases. The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is MEET INEZ FUNG 3
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Wavelengths range from and produce heat of their own, warming the millionths of an inch for very high energy lower atmosphere and Earth's surface. gamma rays to several miles for the longest, lowest energy radio waves.
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easily passes through Greenhouse gases such as the glass panes of a carbon dioxide and methane greenhouse, just as it passes don't just let longwave radiation through Earth's atmosphere. The zip by them.
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Climate scientists say that big changes are possible in the future based on the warming they predict now. For example, climate zones could shift, keeping some plants or animals from living where they do at present.
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in living organisms, volcanic in electric power plants and motor eruptions, oceans vehicles, burning wood, cutting trees and other plants that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere Methane Wetlands (swamps, Rice farming, cattle raising, decay of marshes, bogs) , stomachs garbage in landfills, coal mining, of cattle and termites leaks from natural gas pipelines Nitrous Oxide Livestock waste, wetlands Burning of fossil fuels in electric power plants and motor vehicles, fertilizers Ozone Reaction of ultraviolet Reaction of sunlight with air radiation from the Sun pollutants (often from motor with oxygen in the upper vehicles)
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What happens to Earth's climate, for example, as people produce more carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases? Why does Inez do this?
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But her journey started halfway around the world in Hong Kong, where as a young girl she loved to swim in the ocean and watch clouds in the sky. Back then no one could have predicted how far she would travel or the terrific things she would do.
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