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Drivers of Climate Change

 The following hot-spot images gives you an overview of natural and anthropogenic drivers of climate change. Klick on the blue crosses for a brief description of each driver.

 

Driver of Climate Change by Sea PiaC (CC BY-SA)

 

 

 

 

The greenhouse effects describes the interaction of the solar radiation and our atmosphere. The following presentation describes the importance of the greenhouse effect for the temperature on our earth.

Greenhouse Effect by Sea PiaC (CC BY-SA)

 

 

 

 

So far, we discussed the drivers of climate change and the greenhouse effect. In the following, we want to take a look on possible natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change.  
 
Natural Causes of Climate Change by Sea PiaC (CC BY-SA)

 

 

 

 

 

Anthropogenic Causes of Climate Change by Sea PiaC (CC BY-SA)

 

 

 

 

As we saw, there are a number of possible drivers and causes for a changing climate. Some of them are natural and some of them are man-made.  And we also recognized, that the climate change is a process that occured in the historic and recent past, occures today and that will also occure in the future. In the following slides we want to give you an overview of changes in the climatic system, that can be already identified on a global scale. 

 

Observed change in the climatic system on a global scale by Sea PiaC, M.Sc. Angelika Gruhn, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Fröhle (CC BY-SA)