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Climate sensitivity, a Common card
Climate sensitivity is a key measure in climate science and describes how much Earth's surface will warm in response to a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 175 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Climate sensitivity quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Climate sensitivity card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ temperatures have secondary effects on the climate system.
Answer
increasing. The increasing temperatures have secondary effects on the climate system. From the Climate sensitivity article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
St. Louis. St. Louis 93 · Climate sensitivity 86 · Hawaii hotspot 81 · Belemnitida 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
St. Louis. St. Louis 920,000 · Belemnitida 48,000 · History of Fiji 37,000 · Climate sensitivity 13,000 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.
- Its formal definition is: "The change in the surface temperature in response to a change in the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration or other radiative forcing." This concept helps scientists understand the extent and magnitude of the effects of climate change.
- The Earth's surface warms as a direct consequence of increased atmospheric CO2, as well as increased concentrations of other greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide and methane.
- The increasing temperatures have secondary effects on the climate system.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Climate sensitivity article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Climate sensitivity
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Text : Wikipedia, Climate sensitivity (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Femkemilene, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
