Climate Change - An Overview
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Abstract
Long term changes in Earth’s climate or weather pattern over a region is called climate change. Climate change is more than global warming because global warming refers only to the rising temperature of Earth’s surface whereas climate change includes warming along with its side effects like melting of glaciers, rising sea-levels, frequently occurring droughts, heavy rainstorms etc. The rise in average temperature is only one indicator of broader changes also translating into extreme temperatures, drought, flooding, storms, rising sea levels, impacts on food production, and infectious diseases. Climate change could be natural or man-induced or seems natural but triggered by anthropogenic activities. The anticipated rate of anthropogenic climate change is greater than the natural rate. Carbon dioxide is the principal anthropogenic greenhouse gas and is major contributor to climate change.