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jc611

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Increasing temperatures of earths surface and lower atmosphere provide strong evidence that global
  warming is happening right now. This evidence includes all of the following except:a.
   Average earth temperature from land areas and global shipping lanes indicate that average
  Earth temperature increased 0.74 degrees Celsius during the 20th century.
  b. Half of the increase in Earths average temperature from the 20th century increased during
  its last 30 years.
  c. Nine of the ten years during the first decade of the 21st Century were in the top 10 warmest
  years of a 160-year-long record.
  d. Earths present average temperature is the warmest it has been since 1400, which is as far
  back as we can go with certainty by direct and indirect evidence.
  e. During the recent increase in Earths temperature the greatest amount of warming
  occurred during the day near the equator.



Question 2

What is ablation?
  a. wind driven snow
  b. melting or wasting away of glacial ice
  c. erosion by meltwater
  d. collapse of glacial ice by gravity failure
  e. increase in the volume of ice when it freezes




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Answer to Question 1

E

Answer to Question 2

B



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