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Significant changes are occurring on Earth, including increasing air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising sea levels. Climate change is altering temperature, precipitation, and sea levels, and will adversely impact human and natural systems, including water resources, human settlements and health, ecosystems, and biodiversity Climate change can be a natural process where temperature, rainfall, wind and other elements vary over ades or more. • Climate Change Today: what changes have already occurred and how we know humans are responsible; Our Future Climate: what changes could happen in the future The seven warmest years since have all occurred since and in annual global temperatures were above average for theth consecutive year Annual Climate change can be a natural process where temperature, rainfall, wind and other elements vary over ades or more. This fact sheet discusses key scientific facts that explain the causes and • Climate Change Today: what changes have already occurred and how we know humans are responsible; Our Future Climate: what changes could happen in the future depending on the actions we take; Limiting Future Climate Change: what is required to stop global temperature from continuing to rise Click here to download a printable version. More regional changes have also been observed, including changes in Arctic temperatures and ice, ocean Climate change describes a change in the typical weather for a region — such as high and low temperatures and amount of rainfall Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Global sea level has risen bycm during theth century, in part because of the melting of snow and ice from many mountains and in the polar regions. Climate change is a real and urgent. challenge that is already affecting people and the environment worldwide. In millions of years, our world has been warmer and colder than it is Over the last years (–), global temperature has increased by °C. Just in the last, years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of the last ice age about Missing: pdfFacts. In millions of years, our world has been warmer What is climate. The Earth’s Climate. change?
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