What is Climate Change?
Climate change is a simple idea that has massive consequences. To put it simply, the earth's average temperature is rising due to outrageous levels of pollution manufactured by humans. This temperature change is responsible for changes in weather and climate all over the world, and it is going to keep getting worse until we decide to make a change.
One or two degrees does not seem like a lot, but those few degrees have already brought about massive changes to the earth's environment in the form of natural disasters, droughts, and rising sea levels. These changes have the potential to be fatal to the human race, unless they are dealt with immediately. While it is too late to stop the process of climate change from happening, it is not too late to mitigate some of the effects and reduce future risk.
The rise in average temperature is a result of a phenomenon known as the Greenhouse Effect. Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, are released into the atmosphere from factories, buildings, households, and cars, and have the capability to hold enormous amounts of heat. They cannot filter out of the atmosphere normally anymore, because the ozone layer has become too thick with pollution. Therefore, when the sun heats our planet, most of that heat gets held in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases, which causes Earth's average temperature to increase.
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