Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. Climate change
is a shift in those average conditions. Rising temperatures are fueling
environmental degradation, natural disasters, weather extremes, food and
water insecurity. Sea levels are rising, the Arctic is melting, coral
reefs are dying, oceans are acidifying, and forests are burning. It is
clear that business as usual is not good enough. As the infinite cost of
climate change reaches irreversible highs, now is the time for bold
collective action. The rapid climate change we are now seeing is caused by
humans using oil, gas and coal for their homes, factories and transport;
among other factors. The world is now about 1,2C warmer than it was in the
19th Century - and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by 50%.
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Coded by Alicia Monge