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Bob-Dole

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Due to international pressure, tropical deforestation has largely ceased EXCEPT in a few isolated pockets of Amazonia and equatorial Africa.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Describe the functioning of a general circulation model. What are some of the predictions for the 21st century based on GCMs?
 
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Answer to Question 1

FALSE

Answer to Question 2

GCMs are statistical models representing the physical processes in the atmosphere, oceans, and land surface and are used for simulating the response of the global climate system to increases in greenhouse gases. GCMs depict the climate using a 3D grid over the global.
Different models with different assumptions produce different results. All scenarios of the AOGCM, though, show continued warming throughout the 21st century. See Figure 8.25.




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Reply 2 on: Jul 14, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Gracias!

 

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