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All right, so for this question, at its core, it's asking for the consequences of global climate change, which in and of itself could be an essay question.
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Thankfully, we get the benefit of the multiple choice options, so we can delineate between which ones fit the question better.
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And in this question in particular, there's a certain wording in it that is kind of key for us to figuring out what the right and, answer is.
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And that is short -term and long -term effects.
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So in order to figure out the right answer, we need to make sure that the short -term effects are really short -term effects, and the long -term ones are really long -term.
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Basically, short -term being the immediate causes that you might be able to see and sort of a year -to -year basis or even like within a generation, these things might go away if climate change is reversed or slowed down, or there may be some alleviation of them.
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But long -term effects are those that would last longer than maybe like a generation or could be like to stick around in the environment even long after, you know, change has maybe happened in the opposite direction.
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So those are kind of the baselines, the terms of the terms that we need to keep in the back of our heads as we're reading the answer our choices.
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So let's get started and read through these and figure out which ones make the most sense, given the question and the long -term and short -term parameters.
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So option a, we have short -term changes being melting of glaciers, rising in water levels, which may cover islands or hostess -seave level, and destroying a local ecosystem.
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Systems.
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So those are all short -term effects.
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Those are all things that we can see happening, you know, currently.
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I spent like the rising in water levels and in melting glaciers and in destruction of habitats are things that are happening.
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The latter could maybe be a long -term effect.
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So let's look at the long -term effects here and, you know, maybe that'll give us another clue is to where this answer might lie in our possible choices.
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Long -term effects, this one says, are seasonal patterns, unseasonal rainfall, and lifecycle of insects changes.
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Changes in seasonal patterns is a long -term effect that could continue on for a time, even after the temperature might slow its arise or might begin to drop off.
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A little bit.
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That would take some adjusting to.
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So that one's correct on seasonal rainfall.
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Could be more short term.
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It could be long term.
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But then if it was long term, it would become seasonal rainfall.
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It would be a seasonal change.
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And then the last one, life cycle of insects, again, potentially long term, but more short term adaptation to changes in temperature...