Climate Change

Climate change is the potential consequence of Global Warming which may result in long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of the Earth, over an appropriate period of time.

There can be no dispute that climate change is actually happening. Our seasons are not identical every year. We get some colder years and some warmer years, dry years and wet years. There have always been natural variations in our seasonal weather.

Changing global temperature

Global temperature increases will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation.

Other likely effects include Arctic shrinkage and resulting Arctic methane release, shrinkage of the Amazon rainforest, increases in the intensity of extreme weather events, changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreats, species extinctions and changes in the ranges of disease vectors.

Ways of resolving the climate change problems

The first point to make is that we may not solve the climate change problem!!! Politics could stand in the way of agreeing to a global solution. I have even heard politicans suggesting that African countries should not be allowed to develop their economies because the world cannot afford to do so in a way that would not add to the climate change problem!

But what do we do about India for example? One billion plus population and the only way India can provide sufficient energy is by burning fossil fuels in their power stations! And then consider China. They were recently commissioning one coal fired power station a week!!! Who can tell them that this was wrong? Can the world afford to ignore what is happening in India and China?

politics is an important part of stopping global warming!

Climate change

What We Know about Climate Change