Understanding the problem: What is Climate change and Global Warming
Understanding the problem: What is Climate change and Global Warming To learn about climate change, you first must know what the climate is. What Is Climate? How Is It Different From Weather? You might know what the weather is. Weather is the changes we see and feel outside from day to day. It might rain one day and be sunny the next. Sometimes it is cold. Sometimes it is hot. Weather also changes from place to place. People in one place might be wearing shorts and playing outside. At the same time, people far away might be shovelling snow. Climate is the usual weather of a place. Climate can be different for different seasons. A place might be mostly warm and dry in the summer. The same place may be cool and wet in the winter. Different places can have different climates. You might live where it snows all the time. And some people live where it is always warm enough to swim outside! There's also Earth's climate. Earth's climate is what you get when you combine all the cl...