【英语】全球变暖介绍-PPT文档-高中英语-Global-Warming.pptx

By: WangYanyan LuoYusang JiangYihong ZhouXinli;What we see is just a…;Melting World;The Problems We Have;The figure shows the combined land-surface air and sea surface temperatures (degrees Centigrade) 1861 to 1998, relative to the average temperature between 1961 and 1990.The mean global surface temperature has increased by about 0.3 to 0.6°C since the late 19th century and by about 0.2 to 0.3°C over the last 40 years, which is the period with most reliable data. Recent years have been among the warmest since 1860 - the period for which instrumental records are available. Warming is evident in both sea surface and land-based surface air temperatures. Urbanization in general and desertification could have contributed only a small fraction of the overall global warming, although urbanization may have been an important influence in some regions. Indirect indicators such as borehole temperatures and glacier shrinkage provide independent support for the observed warming. It should also be noted that the warming has not been globally uniform. The recent warming has been greatest between 40°N and 70°N latitude, though some areas such as the North Atlantic Ocean have cooled in the recent decades.;Anthropogenic Global Warming: The Facts;Mechanism of green house gases: Greenhouse gases are those gases that trap the heat in the atmosphere of the earth. The gases that are responsible for anthropogenic global warming overlap with the gases that make the earth warm in order to support life. The important green house gases include carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor and nitrous oxide. These gases may be needed fro sustenance of life. However, an excess of the gas can cause the temperatures to increase. When the rays of the sun enter the atmosphere of the earth, they reach the ground, oceans, and ice caps of the polar regions. Most of these rays are absorbed as heat, light, and energy. Some of the rays are reflected back to the atmosphere. Some of it escapes into space, while a s