Global warming is the sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change. The terms global warming and climate change are often misunderstood to mean the same thing. But climate change includes both global warming and its effects, changes in the Earth's climate, especially those said to be produced by global warming. What do you know about global warming? Take our quiz to find out.
Rising sea level
Heat waves
Expansion of deserts
Inadequate supply of water
Wallace Smith Broecker
David Wallace Stone
Wallace Greg Craig
Williams Daniel Marcus
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
1824
1826
1828
1830
Joseph Fourier
Eunice Newton Foote
John Tyndall
Svante Arrhenius
1855
1856
1857
1858
Joseph Fourier
Eunice Newton Foote
John Tyndall
Svante Arrhenius
England
USA
Brazil
China
16%
17%
18%
19%
Greenhouse gases
Waste product
Electricity
Water
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