Global warming is not expected to involve changes in rainfall
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
FALSE
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In the diagram below, the importance of the falling precipitation at "A" for the global carbon cycle is that
A) the falling rain makes carbon in the atmosphere more inert, giving it much greater potential to act as a greenhouse gas and warm the Earth.
B) the falling rain brings CaCO3 which was trapped in the atmosphere to the surface, cooling the Earth.
C) the falling rain lubricates the Earth's surface, making crustal deformation more likely, which would bring carbon stored in the lithosphere back up to the atmosphere, warming the Earth.
D) CO2 combines with water to form H2CO3, removing carbon from the atmosphere and cooling the Earth.
A forecaster that consistently overpredicts the daily high temperature has
A) a forecast bias and a mean absolute forecast error larger than zero. B) a forecast bias and no mean absolute forecast error. C) no forecast bias and a mean absolute forecast error larger than zero. D) no forecast bias and no mean absolute forecast error.
The idea, in the 19th century, that the United States had a God-given duty to settle and spread its values from the Atlantic to the Pacific is called ________
A) The philosophy of American exceptionalism B) The philosophy of American cultural diffusion C) The philosophy of American ethnocentrism D) The philosophy of American manifest destiny
To help distinguish a storm’s air motions, a Doppler radar can display ____
a. amount of radiational cooling b. wind velocities in color c. lightning streaks d. funnel clouds e. the amount of solar energy of a given area