Climate Change: Causes, Effects and Solutions
What is Climate Change? Climate change refers to long-term changes in the Earth's climate system caused primarily by human activities, such as variations in temperature, precipitation patterns, and the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. There have been many periods of warming and cooling throughout Earth's history. As the planet's orbit shifted slightly, when the atmosphere or land changed, or when the Sun's energy varied, the planet's climate shifted. In the last century, however, humans have emerged as a significant contributor to Earth's climate. The fast rise in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century is associated with global warming, and it is largely attributable to the greenhouse gases created when humans burn fossil fuels. Earth has gone through climate change before, and it happened without human intervention....