What is a fact about climate change?

What is a fact about climate change?

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by more than 30% since pre-industrial times, trapping more heat in the lower atmosphere. The resulting changes in the global climate bring a range of risks to health, from deaths in extreme high temperatures to changing patterns of infectious diseases.

What are the real effects of climate change?

More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people’s livelihoods and communities. As climate change worsens, dangerous weather events are becoming more frequent or severe.

What evidence do we have that climate change is taking place?

The physical and biological changes that confirm climate warming include the rate of retreat in glaciers around the world, the intensification of rainfall events, changes in the timing of the leafing out of plants and the arrival of spring migrant birds, and the shifting of the range of some species.

What are the 5 effects of climate change?

What are the effects of climate change and global warming?

• rising maximum temperatures.
• rising minimum temperatures.
• rising sea levels.
• higher ocean temperatures.
• an increase in heavy precipitation (heavy rain and hail)
• shrinking glaciers.
• thawing permafrost.

What causes climate change 2020?

The expected changes in climate are based on our understanding of how greenhouse gases trap heat. Natural causes include variations in the Sun’s output and in Earth’s orbit around the Sun, volcanic eruptions, and internal fluctuations in the climate system (such as El Niño and La Niña).

Who is the most affected by climate change?

The Germanwatch institute presented the results of the Global Climate Risk Index 2020 during COP25 in Madrid. According to this analysis, based on the impacts of extreme weather events and the socio-economic losses they cause, Japan, the Philippines and Germany are the most affected places by climate change today.