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Climate Shabnam
Change
Weather describes the conditions
outside right now in a specific place.
For example, if you see that it’s
raining outside right now, that’s a
way to describe today’s weather.
Rain, snow, wind, hurricanes,
tornadoes — these are all weather
Weather events.
Climate, on the other hand, is more
than just one or two rainy days.
and Climate describes the weather
conditions that are expected in a
Climate region at a particular time of year.
Is it usually rainy or usually dry? Is it
typically hot or typically cold? A
region’s climate is determined by
observing its weather over a period
of many years—generally 30 years
or more.
What is climate
change?
Climate change describes a change
in the average conditions — such
as temperature and rainfall — in a
region over a long period of time.
For example, 20,000 years ago,
much of the United States was
covered in glaciers. In the United
States today, we have a warmer
climate and fewer glaciers.
Global climate change refers to the
average long-term changes over
the entire Earth. These include
warming temperatures and
changes in precipitation.
Earth’s warming, such as:
Rising sea levels
Shrinking mountain glaciers
Ice melting at a faster rate than usual in Greenland,
Antarctica and the Arctic
Changes in flower and plant blooming times.
Earth’s climate has constantly been changing — even long
before humans came into the picture. However, scientists
have observed unusual changes recently. For example,
Earth’s average temperature has been increasing much more
quickly than they would expect over the past 150 years.
Five key greenhouse gases
1. carbon dioxide
2. nitrous oxide
3.Methane
4.Chlorofluorocarbons
5.water vapor.
While the Sun has played a role in past climate changes,
the evidence shows the current warming cannot be
explained by the Sun.
Causes of climate
changeBurning fossil fuels,
cutting down forests and
farming livestock are
increasingly influencing the
climate and the earth’s
temperature.This adds
enormous amounts of
greenhouse gases to those
naturally occurring in the
atmosphere, increasing the
greenhouse eff ect and
global warming.
Global
warming
2011-2020 was the warmest decade
recorded, with global average
temperature reaching 1.1°C above pre-
industrial levels in 2019. Human-induced
global warming is presently increasing
at a rate of 0.2°C per decade.
An increase of 2°C compared to the
temperature in pre-industrial times is
associated with serious negative
impacts on to the natural environment
and human health and wellbeing,
including a much higher risk that
dangerous and possibly catastrophic
changes in the global environment will
occur.
For this reason, the international
community has recognised the need to
keep warming well below 2°C and pursue
eff orts to limit it to 1.5°C.
Burning coal, oil and gas produces carbon
dioxide and nitrous oxide.
Cutting down forests (deforestation). Trees
help to regulate the climate by absorbing
CO2 from the atmosphere. When they are
cut down, that beneficial effect is lost and

Causes
the carbon stored in the trees is released
into the atmosphere, adding to the
greenhouse effect.
Increasing livestock farming. Cows and
for rising sheep produce large amounts of methane
when they digest their food.

emissions Fertilisers containing nitrogen produce


nitrous oxide emissions.

Fluorinated gases are emitted from


equipment and products that use these
gases. Such emissions have a very strong
warming effect, up to 23 000 times greater
than CO2
Natural Causes of
Climate Change
Some amount of climate change can be
attributed to natural phenomena. Over the
course of Earth’s existence, volcanic
eruptions, fl uctuations in solar
radiation, tectonic shifts, and even
small changes in our orbit have all had
observable eff ects on planetary warming and
cooling patterns.
But climate records are able to show that
today’s global warming—particularly what
has occured since the start of the industrial
revolution—is happening much, much faster
than ever before. According to NASA,
“[t]hese natural causes are still in play
today, but their infl uence is too small or they
occur too slowly to explain the rapid warming
seen in recent decades.” And the records
refute the misinformation that natural causes
are the main culprits behind climate change,
as some in the fossil fuel industry and
conservative think tanks would like us to
believe.
Industry &
Manufacturing
The factories and facilities that
produce our goods are signifi cant
sources of greenhouse gases; in 2020,
they were responsible for fully 24
percent of U.S. emissions. Most
industrial emissions come from the
production of a small set of carbon-
intensive products, including basic
chemicals, iron and steel, cement and
concrete, aluminum, glass, and paper.
To manufacture the building blocks of
our infrastructure and the vast array
of products demanded by consumers,
producers must burn through massive
amounts of energy. In addition, older
facilities in need of effi ciency
upgrades frequently leak these gases,
along with other harmful forms of air
pollution.
How does climate affect human
life?
The impacts of climate change include warming
temperatures, changes in precipitation,
increases in the frequency or intensity of some
extreme weather events, and rising sea levels.
These impacts threaten our health by affecting
the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we
breathe, and the weather we experience.
What is climate change risk?

What is climate risk? Climate risk is the


potential for climate change to create adverse
consequences for human or ecological systems.
This includes impacts on lives, livelihoods,
health and wellbeing, economic, social and
cultural assets and investments, infrastructure,
services provision, ecosystems and species.
Thank you for
your attention

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