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climate change with Forcing
External boundary conditions on earth and planets that change, like suns radiation and earths hurricanes are perfect examples of Forcing in a climate. A forcing in an invironment is a quick change or quick change in an environment. A big example is hurricane Katrina, a huge hurricane that hit New Orleans causing alot of damage to alot of land and homes. Forcings have lot to do with changing earth's energy balance with balances of gases, aerosols, land use and energy from sun. Some of these drastic changes in environment are human caused, such as global warming and trashing the earth. Climate change with forcing often occurs naturally through hurricanes and earthquakes. These natural occurences shift winds and move landforms. Man made climate change through forcing occurs through pollution which is causing our earth to warm up (global warming). Global warming is considered man made forcing. Temperature is forced to decrease or increase in celcius or farenheit in earth atmosphere. It may take years to decades to notice surface temperature change on the earth from these changes. These changes have been occuring alot in the past decade. Global warming is the most impacting and it is causing typhoons, hurricanes and flooding in alot of regions in the world, especially near the equator. Recently there was an earthquake in Chili that was so powerful that it actually shifted the tilt of the earth. This could affect climate over time and has caused the day to be shortened by a milli second.

types of forcings
greenhouse gases- Is the natural version of global warming, heating being trapped in earths surface-trophospere system. man-made (anthropogenic)- Is mainly based on global warming, this forcing is from human activity on earth. global wraming is pretty much a more serious version of the greenhouse effect. natural forces-Includes suns energy change, radiative forces, its anything thats completely natural and has nothing to do with human usage on earth or sun.

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