--- title: "What is climate change?" description: "What is climate change?" author: "Sandra Emily" published: 2022-06-27 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97813/what-is-climate-change category: "nature" tags: ["nature", "climate change"] reading_time: 4 minutes --- # What is climate change? What is climate change? ## Answers ### Answer by user I have the same question. Similar to Wordle, Crosswords requires you to fill in the grid with the appropriate letters to complete a crossword. You can view a guide on how to play Crosswordle for more information, including rules, where to play for free, and how to share your Crosswordle scores. gmail \ ### Answer by user #### ![What is climate change?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/8680d1f5-b1ae-4ecc-a739-835d1365d428/images/1bbbf13e-536e-4f71-9bba-97dbb77bebe7.jpeg) #### What is climate change?\ #### By the term Climate Change, we refer to the shifts in temperature and weather patterns over a long time. These shifts can be natural that are caused due to variations in the solar cycle. But in recent centuries, human activities have been the leading cause of climate change, mainly due to activities like the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas.\ #### Burning fossil fuels produces enormous greenhouse gas emissions like a blanket around the Earth. This blanket of greenhouse gases traps the sun's heat and raises Earth's atmosphere's temperature. As a result, the Earth is 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer now than it was in the late 1800s. Many people assume that climate change only means the temperature rise, but there is much more to it. As our Earth works like a system where everything is connected, changes in one area can easily influence change in all others.\ #### Climate change has brought intense droughts, scarcity of water, rise in sea levels due to the melting of polar ice caps, flooding, catastrophic storms, and decreasing biodiversity.\ Climate change also affects our health, housing, ability to grow food, etc. In several reports of the [United Nation](https://www.un.org/en/climatechange), scientists and reviewers agreed that the global temperature rise must be limited to 1.5-degree Celsius. This will help us avoid the impacts caused by climate change and maintain a livable climate. Yet based on current reports, global warming is expected to reach around 3.2 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. \ ### Answer by Sarda Kumari #### ![What is climate change?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/8680d1f5-b1ae-4ecc-a739-835d1365d428/images/c4bbd597-2ded-4d8b-af14-ca25f39e3336.jpeg) ## Climate change- Introduction **\** \ By the term [Climate Change](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/299742/climate-change-and-health), we refer to the shifts in **temperature** and weather patterns over a long time. These shifts can be natural that are caused due to variations in the **solar cycle**. But in recent centuries, human activities have been the leading cause of climate change, mainly due to activities like the burning of **fossil fuels**like oil, coal, and gas. ## Causes of climate change Burning fossil fuels produces enormous **greenhouse gas** emissions like a blanket around the Earth. This blanket of greenhouse gases traps the sun's heat and raises Earth's **atmosphere's** temperature. As a result, the Earth is 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer now than it was in the late 1800s. Many people assume that climate change only means the temperature rise, but there is much more to it. As our Earth works like a system where everything is connected, changes in one area can easily influence change in all others. ## Effects of climate change Climate change has brought intense droughts, **scarcity** of water, rise in sea levels due to the melting of polar ice caps, flooding, catastrophic storms, and decreasing **biodiversity**. Climate change also affects our health, housing, ability to grow food, etc. In several reports of the United Nations, scientists and reviewers agreed that the global temperature rise must be limited to 1.5-degree Celsius. This will help us avoid the impacts caused by **climate** change and maintain a **livable** climate. Yet based on current reports, global warming is expected to reach around 3.2 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. \ --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97813/what-is-climate-change Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.