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The causes of climate change - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Earth's energy balance
        
        Energy balance describes how the incoming energy from the solar irradiation is used and reflected to space by the Earth. If incoming and outgoing energy are in balance, the earth's temperature remains constant.
        
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      - Evaporation absorbs lots of solar irradiance, thus cools down the temperature.
  - - - Changes in reflectivity affect how much energy enters Earth’s climate system.
        
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        Activities like agriculture and road construction can change the reflectivity of the earth’s surface, leading to local warming or cooling, too.
  - - - Evaporation: Warmth from the sun irradiance causes water from oceans, lakes, streams, ice and soils to rise into the air and turn into water vapor.
        
        Condensation: Water vapour in the air cools down and turns back into liquid water.
        
        Precipitation: Water (in the form of rain, snow, hail or sleet) falls from clouds.
        
        Collection: water that falls from the clouds as rain, snow, hail or sleet, collects in the oceans, rivers, lakes, streams. Most will soak into the ground as underground water.
        
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  - - - Worsen greenhouse effect by adding excess greenhouse gases into the atmoshpere..
    - - In the daytime, Sun shines through the Earth's atmosphere to warm the surface.
        
        At night, the surface cools down while some of the heat is trapped by the gases in the atmosphere.
        
        The heat-trapped gases are called greenhouse gases
        
        Water vapor
        
        Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas and also the most important in terms of its contribution to the natural greenhouse effect.
        
        Carbon dioxide
        
        Methane
        
        Greenhouse gases and aerosols affect climate by altering incoming solar radiation and outgoing infrared (thermal) radiation that are part of Earth’s energy
        balance.
- - - - Deforestation
        
        Transportation emission
        
        Agriculture and livestock
        
        Road construction
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