CLIMATE CHANGE

BY: JANHVI SHARMA 1K

 WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE?

• Climate change occurs when changes in Earth's climate system result in new
weather patterns that remain in place for an extended period of time. This
length of time can be as short as a few decades to as long as millions of
years. The history of the scientific discovery of climate change began in the
early 19th century when ice ages and other natural changes in paleoclimate
were first suspected and the natural greenhouse effect first identified.
WHAT AFFECTS DOES CLIMATE CHANGE
HAVE.

Therefore, in summary, global warming, together with resultant changes

in food and water supplies, can indirectly cause increases in a range of
adverse health outcomes, including malnutrition, diarrhea, injuries,
cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and water-borne and insect-transmitted
diseases.
 HOW CAN WE STOP THE CLIMATE
CHANGE .

• Examples of mitigation include reducing energy demand by increasing

energy efficiency, phasing out fossil fuels by switching to low-carbon energy
sources, and removing carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere.
WHAT BARRIERS MAY PREVENT US FROM
SOLVING THIS PROBLEMS
• Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. Climate change is already
happening: temperatures are rising, drought and wild fires are starting to occur more frequently,
rainfall patterns are shifting, glaciers and snow are melting and the global mean sea level is rising.
• The difficulty of developing sound strategies for responding to climate change, and of building
public support for such strategies, stems in part from the inherent complexity of the issue. Some of
this complexity relates to the physical science of climate change; but understanding and
responding to climate change also raises many social, economic, ethical, and political challenges.
The chapter highlights some of the unique challenges posed by climate change that must be
considered in designing the nation’s response strategies.