Climate Change

In these pages you will learn about climate change:

• What is climate change? Climate change is a long-term change that causes the earth's temperature to rise

• What is the difference between weather and climate? Weather refers to short term atmospheric conditions while climate is the weather of a specific region averaged over a long period of time. Climate change refers to long-term changes.

• What are the effects of climate change? More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people's livelihoods and communities. As climate change worsens, dangerous weather events are becoming more frequent or severe.

• What can we do about it? We can put solar panels, not use the car so much, occasionally clean the beaches, these are some ideas