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Climate Change Grasp

Climate change is the long-term alteration of Earth's climate, primarily driven by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, which enhance the greenhouse effect and lead to global warming. Natural factors like volcanic eruptions and solar fluctuations also play a role, but human-induced changes are occurring at a much faster rate, resulting in severe impacts on ecosystems and weather patterns. The document highlights the urgent need to address industrial pollution and unsustainable practices to mitigate these effects.

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Climate Change Grasp

Climate change is the long-term alteration of Earth's climate, primarily driven by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, which enhance the greenhouse effect and lead to global warming. Natural factors like volcanic eruptions and solar fluctuations also play a role, but human-induced changes are occurring at a much faster rate, resulting in severe impacts on ecosystems and weather patterns. The document highlights the urgent need to address industrial pollution and unsustainable practices to mitigate these effects.

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What is Climate Change?

The Green House Effect

Climate change refers to long-term


Earth’s natural greenhouse effect
shifts in Earth's climate, affecting
keeps the planet habitable. Gases in
temperatures, weather patterns, and
ecosystems.
the atmosphere trap heat, raising
the average global temperature to
14.5°C instead of -18°C.

Human activities, such as burning coal


and deforestation, release excess
While natural factors such as volcanic
greenhouse gases like CO2 and
eruptions, changes in solar energy, methane. This enhanced greenhouse
and orbital variations influence effect causes global warming,
climate, human activities—like burning disrupting ecosystems, melting polar
fossil fuels—have accelerated
Understanding
warming.
ice, and intensifying storms. It’s a
Earth: The measurable, scientifically backed
Greenhouse Effect phenomenon.
and Natural Climate
Change

SCIENCE EXPO 2025 The enhanced greenhouse effect is


responsible for rising global Human actions, such as industrial
temperatures, proving that today’s pollution and deforestation, disrupt
changes are more than natural the natural balance of greenhouse
cycles. gases, amplifying climate change and
threatening the delicate systems Earth
depends on for stability."
Natural Causes of Climate Change Industrial Impacts on Climate
Volcanic and Asteroid Impacts
Earth’s climate naturally changes due to slow Massive volcanic eruptions and asteroid Human-driven industrialization has
geological and astronomical processes. impacts have historically caused dramatic dramatically increased the levels of
Volcanic eruptions, Milankovitch Cycles climate shifts. Volcanic eruptions like Mount greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
(Earth’s orbital changes), and solar energy Tambora in 1815 released ash and sulfur Factories, vehicles, and power plants burn
fluctuations are key drivers. dioxide, blocking sunlight and cooling Earth fossil fuels, releasing vast amounts of CO2
temporarily. and methane.

Similarly, asteroid impacts eject debris into


the atmosphere, causing a “nuclear winter” These activities disrupt Earth’s natural
effect, as seen in the extinction of the balance, contributing to rising global
Over thousands of years, these factors
dinosaurs. While these events are rare, their temperatures and altering climate patterns.
influence glacial and interglacial periods.
effects are drastic. The excess heat drives more extreme weather
While natural, these changes occur over
events, such as hurricanes, droughts, and
millennia and are predictable. Human-
heatwaves, while destabilizing ecosystems and
induced climate change, however, is faster
endangering species.
and more severe.

Human interference exacerbates the


aftermath of such events, making recovery Industries often prioritize profit over
2017 Hurricane Harvey (from nesdis)
for ecosystems even more difficult. sustainability, accelerating deforestation,
Unlike natural processes, human
actions rapidly disrupt the climate, pollution, and resource depletion, leaving a
with consequences that ecosystems lasting and harmful footprint on the
and species cannot adapt to in time. environment.

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