Climate Change

By: Hailey Winesburg

Earth’s climate is changing faster than it ever has.  Climate change has made an immense impact across the entire world.  So, what is climate change? Climate change is the effect of primarily burning fossil fuels.  When we burn fossil fuels, it adds gases like carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into our atmosphere that trap heat.  This heat increases the Earth’s temperature through a long period of time, which is also known as global warming. However, climate change isn’t just the warming of the Earth.  Climate change includes things that are constantly changing around us like the usual change in the weather. This could mean that it is hotter than usual, colder than usual, raining more than it normally does, and more!  Unfortunately, climate change also has more negative effects as well like causing sea levels to rise, large masses of ice to melt, oceans to become more acidic due to the increase in water temperatures, an increase in evaporation which leads to events like hurricanes, and it also affects natural habitats and life all around the world. Continue reading →