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Epic card · Nature
Climate change, an Epic card
Present-day climate change includes both global warming, the ongoing increase in global average temperature, and its wider effects on Earth's climate system.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 100
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 194
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 810,000
Ranked #63 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Climate change quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Climate change card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In a ______ sense, climate change also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate.
Answer
broader. In a broader sense, climate change also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. From the Climate change article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Climate change. Climate change 810,000 · Coney Island 320,000 · 2019–20 Australian bushfire season 160,000 · Congolese rumba 29,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In a broader sense, climate change also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate.
- The modern-day rise in global temperatures is driven by human activities, especially fossil fuel burning since the Industrial Revolution.
- Fossil fuel use, deforestation, and some agricultural and industrial practices release greenhouse gases.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Climate change article was read about 810,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 100 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Climate change
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Climate change (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, Key and Title by uploader (Eric Fisk), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
