Climate change
Climate Change
Climate change (pronunciation: /ˈklaɪ.mət ʧeɪndʒ/) refers to significant changes in global temperatures and weather patterns over time.
Etymology
The term "climate change" is derived from the Greek word "klima," meaning inclination, referring to the climate of the Earth, and the English word "change," meaning to make or become different.
Definition
Climate change is a long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place. Climate change could refer to a particular location or the planet as a whole. Climate change is often referred to in the context of the Earth's global climate, which is warming due to human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
Related Terms
- Global Warming: An increase in the Earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
- Greenhouse Effect: The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
- Carbon Dioxide: A heavy colorless gas that does not support combustion, dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, is formed especially in animal respiration and in the decay or combustion of animal and vegetable matter, and is absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis.
- Deforestation: The action or process of clearing of forests.
- Fossil Fuels: A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Climate change
- Wikipedia's article - Climate change
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