Energy and Climate: Vision for the Future | Harvard Online Learning

ENERGY AND CLIMATE
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Earth’s Energy Balance
Greenhouse gases impact ‘Energy Lost’ term in the Earth’s energy balance equation.
Changing surface and ocean temperatures reflect ‘Change in storage’ term in the Earth’s energy balance equation.
Energy from the Sun
The statement ‘summer is warmer than winter because the Earth is closer to the sun’ is False
Distributing Energy around the Planet
7. The statement “The equator is warmer primarily because it is closer to the sun than the poles” is not true with regards to global energy gradient.
The Role of Greenhouse Gases in Energy Balance
10. Greenhouse gases are transparent to shortwave radiation but trap longwave radiation, increasing temperatures.
11. N2 and o2 are not greenhouse gases
Climate Change
12. The statement “Although greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing rapidly since the Industrial Revolution, global average surface temperatures have not increased because all of the emitted CO2 has been absorbed by the oceans” is False.