Analysis and prediction of the effects of climate change involves the application of thermodynamics, fluid
mechanics, heat and mass transfer and other sciences. Thermodynamic factors are involved in the overall
energy balance, the influence of changing concentrations of greenhouse gases (particularly carbon dioxide,
methane), latent heat of vaporization (increasingly powerful hurricanes, forest fires) and melting (loss of ice
sheets, melting of icebergs), and the exponential increase of vapor pressure with rising temperature.
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