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What is climate Change?

Climate change is the consequence of unchecked pollution. When carbon emissions caused by human
activity enter the air they have dangerous effects on the environment, the economy, and our wellbeing. But just
as humans cause it, we can halt its progress. According to the Wikipedia the free encyclopedia.Climate change
is a significant time variation in weather patterns occurring over periods ranging from decades to millions of
years. Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather
around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events).

Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by
Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant
causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global warming".

Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical
models. A climate record — extending deep into the Earth's past — has been assembled, and continues to be
built up, based on geological evidence from borehole temperature profiles, cores removed from deep
accumulations of ice, floral and faunal records, glacial and periglacial processes, stable-isotope and other
analyses of sediment layers, and records of past sea levels. More recent data are provided by the instrumental
record. General circulation models, based on the physical sciences, are often used in theoretical approaches to
match past climate data, make future projections, and link causes and effects in climate change.
What are the causes of climate change

Climate change is caused by trapping excess carbon in Earth’s atmosphere. This trapped carbon pollution
heats up, altering the Earth's climate patterns. The largest source of this pollution is the burning of fossil
fuels (such as coal and oil) for energy. While carbon has entered the atmosphere for millions of years through
natural events such as forest fires and volcanoes, the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of land has resulting
in the highest levels of greenhouse pollution in our atmosphere in the last 800,000 years.

Why is our climate getting warmer? Earth’s atmosphere has evolved to retain sufficient warmth from the
sun to encourage a healthy, dynamic ecosystem, while shielding us from its harsher effects. The introduction of
huge amounts of excess pollutants thickens this blanket of protective gases, causing heat to remain trapped
within, rather than harmlessly escaping skywards. These gases can remain in our atmosphere for up to 90 years,
contributing to long-term warming.

As the world warms, there are flow-on effects that can make things worse. For instance, warmer water
melts polar ice caps each summer. Sea ice normally reflects heat from the sun, while water absorbs it. Less ice
means more heat which in turn means less ice, leading to a cycle of warming from which it is hard to escape.
Temperatures are already rising quickly, with the last decade being the hottest on record.

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