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Environmental change and environment
- The Causes of Climate ChangeHuman activities (primarily the burning of fossil fuels) have fundamentally increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere, warming the planet. Natural drivers, without human intervention, would push our planet toward a cooling period.
- What Is Climate Change?Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
- The Effects of Climate ChangeThe effects of human-caused global warming are happening now, are irreversible on the timescale of people alive today, and will worsen in the decades to come.
- Global Change: An OverviewHuman population growth and consumption, energy use, land use changes, and pollution are driving forces of global change. How do these factors impact ecological systems and human societies?
- Global ImpactsClimate change affects each part of the globe differently. Because of Earth's biodiversity, changing weather patterns and geographic variety, each region in the world will have to deal with their own set of consequences brought on by climate change.
- Climate change indicators and impacts worsened in 20202020 was one of three warmest years on record, despite cooling La Niña.
Extreme weather and COVID-19 combined in a double blow.
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Source: Our warming world: How much difference will half-a-degree really make? (2018, October 8). WWF. https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/our-warming-world-how-much-difference-will-half-degree-really-make
Impact of climate change
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.
Climate science explained in 60 seconds by the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences.