global warming - an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere, climate change - a change in temperature, precipitation, or wind, lasting for an extended period, fossil fuels - natural non-renewable fuels such as coal, oil, or natural gas, nonrenewable resource - a natural resource that cannot be replaced in a reasonable amount of time, renewable resource - energy resource that is self-sustaining and constantly renews, desertification - the transition of land from fertile to increasingly desert, urbanization - the growth of cities and the migration of people into them, sea level - the level of the surface of the ocean relative to land, sea level change - a rise of ocean level in relation to land, caused by large scale temperature changes, deforestation - cutting of large forests for human activity,

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