What is Climate Change
The climate can be described as the average weather over a period of time. Climate change means a significant change in the measures of climate, such as temperature, rainfall, or wind, lasting for an extended period – decades or longer. The Earth's climate has changed many times during the planet's history, with events ranging from ice ages to long periods of warmth. What’s different about this period of the earth’s history is that human activities are significantly contributing to natural climate change through our emissions of greenhouse gases. This interference is resulting in increased air and ocean temperatures, drought, melting ice and snow, rising sea levels, increased rainfall, flooding and other influences.
Factors That Affect Climate Change
Human Activity and Climate
Human activity can affect the environment and can change the climate. Climate is the way people live and it is critical for tourism in a region.
Agriculture
The change in climate might help or on the other hand destroy farmland. High temperature makes the soil dry. Heavy rainfall is needed for fertilizing but may wash away soil and farmland.
Energy Conservation
Energy conservation is becoming an immediate priority for governments and to achieve this they must use reafforestation, reusing and recycling of products, cleaner fuel, a reduction in the burning of fossil fuels and an increase in the use of renewable energy such as water, solar and wind power.
Humans and their involvement
Engineers and planners are looking to the near future and are developing strategies to combat global warming, such as the construction of sea defenses, irrigation schemes, flood dams and levees.
Global Warming
The rising temperature on the earth is because of the greenhouse effect, global warming is an example of what humans can do to the environment and the results can fluctuate due to the amount of natural greenhouse gasses. Greenhouse gasses are carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons and methane.. Burning fossil fuels, deforestation and types of transport can also cause global warming.
The Greenhouse Effect
The earth receives its life-sustaining heat from the sun. Majority of the heat energy from the sun passes through the earth's atmosphere as ultraviolet, or short-wave radiation.
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How we can prevent climate change
The Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Framework Convention on Climate change (1992) is the first international community to help with man-made pollution to protect the climate.Other Solution that people should try and incorporate into their lifestyle are the following. We should try and use renewable energy sources like solar and wind. Recycle our rubbish so that we do not have to remake things. Plant more forests and reduce deforestation and also use alternatives to diesel or petrol cars such as electric cars which do not harm the atmosphere and add the changing climate due to human intervention.