Answer the following questions in own words. Ch-9
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Why is a stable climate important to our communities and global society?
Why is the rate of global warming more important than the total increase in global average temperature?
What are ecosystem services and why are they essential to our communities and global society?
Why is there more localized warming in the high latitudes compared to the tropics due to global warming? Why is land warming faster than the ocean?
How is it that climate change can cause both increases in risk of urban flooding events and increases in droughts?
Why is there such a long lag-time between global warming and sea level rise? Why does this mean that people living centuries from now will live in a world with much higher sea levels?
What is storm surge and why is climate change making this problem worse?
Define and describe the idea of non-linear climate impacts.
What consequences of climate change do you find to be the most important or concerning?
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