Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

GLOBAL CLIMATE
CHANGE

Climate Change
• Climate change is the condition where there
are new and altered patterns of weather
occurring for a prolonged period of time.
• Scientists have been able to trace
developments of such changes happening
since the time of Industrial Revolution.
• The primary reason behind such changes
taking place is human activities which has
acted as the catalyst in the process of
change (Zehr 2016).

Global Warming
• Global warming is the condition of rise of
temperature for long period of time which gives rise
to the increase of average temperature of Earth.
• It is mainly the rise of temperature in the global
surface because of human activities and continuance
of the same.
• The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change have
found out that the major influence has been
contributed by human beings (Ipcc.ch 2020).
• There have also been reports which have shown that
there will be considerable change of degrees to 10
degrees Fahrenheit in within the next century.

Green House Gases
• Green house gases have been the primary reason behind the
rise of temperature.
• The production of the gases are due to human activities.
• The gases get trapped up within the atmosphere of Earth
which results in the rise of harmful green house gases and
temperature.

Impacts
• The effects of global climate change has varied in
different reasons.
• The maximum impact is caused in the polar regions
where there have been shrinking of glaciers and
natural lives due to the loss of habitats in the ice
capped regions (Bulkeley and Newell 2015).
• There have also been rise of sea levels and
changes of habitats of wildlife.
• Extreme weather changes have also resulted in
occurrences of wildfires such as the immediate
events in Australia and Amazon.

Conclusion
• Climate change is a global phenomenon which has been felt
all across the globe even though the impact and intensity of
changes are different.
• If effective measures are not taken and people lack awareness
to act on the same, there will be massive effects and
occurrences of natural disasters as a result of the changes.

References
• Bulkeley, H. and Newell, P., 2015. Governing climate change. Routledge.
• Ipcc.ch (2020). IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
[online] Ipcc.ch. Available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/ [Accessed 20 Jan. 2020].
• Zehr, S.C., 2016. Public representations of scientific uncertainty about
global climate change. Public understanding of science.