"The climate is changing."
Climate change is any long-term significant change in the average weather that a given region experiences. This rise in temperature is attributed to an increase in greenhouse gases - gases like carbon dioxide. These gases retain the warmth in them hence increasing the temperature.
Global Warming refers to the observation that the atmosphere near the Earth's surface is warming. Therefore, the earth is warming up, and there is now overwhelming scientific consensus that it is happening, and human-induced. Human beings contribute to global warming and climate change by polluting and cutting down rain forests, but humans can not control the climate or change it. As important as it is to know what global warming is, it is also important to know the dangers that surround it. Many have agreed that climate change may be one of the greatest threats facing the planet.
With global warming on the increase and countless species and their habitats on the decrease, chances for an ecosystems to adapt naturally to this change are diminishing.Scientists are trying to define the level of risk associated with future climate change, although they leave it up to others to decide how much risk is too much. Warming of the climate system is unambiguous, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and water temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level.
The world mostly agrees that something needs to be done about global warming and climate change. The first stumbling block, however, has been trying to get an agreement on a framework. Twenty years ago, climate research became politicized in favor of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases.
"When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works."
For a number of years, there have been concerns that climate change negotiations will essentially ignore a key principle of climate change negotiation frameworks: the common but differentiated responsibilities.
It is very clear that the balance of international scientific opinion is enormously in support of the conclusion that climate change is a real and ever-increasing threat to the existence of life, requiring urgent and committed action. It nonetheless remains a significant issue, in terms of gaining wider political and public consensus on the need for effort, that the arguments put forward by the skeptics gain publicity and influence far beyond that, which can be justified by the standing of the individuals concerned, by the validity of their arguments, and by the scientific credibility of the evidence that they are able to put forward.
It is we the people, who can solve this issue, and that we must.
