Scientific information on climate change

Climate change is a broad term which describes the drastic environmental shifts that the earth is experiencing due to both human behaviours and natural processes. Although the earth naturally goes through patterns of environmental change, humans accelerate those changes by putting pressure of the planet. Greenhouse gasses (especially CO2) are expelled by humans through our transportation systems, burning fossil fuels to use as energy, industrial manufacturing, and mass meat farms. These gases cloud the atmosphere, enveloping the earth in gas and creating a “greenhouse effect” that traps the sun’s heat and warms the planet. As the planet unnaturally warms, ice melts and increases the sea levels, ecosystems change to adapt to the new temperatures, animals go extinct under environmental pressures, and natural cycles are interrupted. Additionally, human air, water, and land pollution through trash and chemical byproducts also corrode ecosystems and contribute to climate changes.

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