Dreams of ice-cream cones, running through sprinklers, and swimsuits make the winter almost bearable. So when the news anchor announces that the summers are getting hotter that s really good news. They also predict that by 2100 the temperature could rise by between 1 degree Celsius to 3.5 degrees Celsius over 1990 levels. This could result in droughts, storms, floods, and hurricanes. Review newspaper headlines from the last few years and you will find that these extreme weather patterns are already occurring, more and more often.
Climate change is a change in the average weather of an area.
This includes the temperature, wind patterns, and the amount of rain or snow. Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of an area. It is one of the most alarming aspects of climate change. Greenhouse gases naturally occur in the Earth s atmosphere. One of their functions is to keep some of the heat from the Sun close to the Earth s surface instead of allowing it all to be reflected into space.