Climate Change

In recent years the threat of Climate Change has become increasingly evident. Climate Change poses a major threat to humanity as well as the environment around us. Climate change can be described as significant change to average global and regional weather patterns that have been experienced over long periods of time. Such changes can include changes in temperature, rainfall patterns and extreme weather events such as increases in powerful storms etc.

While the earth's climate has always been changing, changes to the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have dramatically increased the level of global warming over the last 150 years at a much faster pace than was previously experienced.

This is because the greenhouse effect is now being driven by man-made emissions from human activity. Human activities since the industrial revolution have resulted in an increase of carbon dioxide by 40%. The level of global warming in the planet has not been this high in over 800, 000 years. Most of this warming has been due to humanity's use of fossil fuels. Levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from transport, energy production, agriculture and industrial processes continue to be on the rise. The presence of these gases in the atmosphere further enhances the natural greenhouse effect which speeds up irreversible changes to the climate (EPA, 2019).