03/05/2024
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns, primarily caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels. It's a problem because it leads to extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and loss of biodiversity, which can harm our environment, economy, and health.
Global warming refers only to the Earth's rising surface temperature, while climate change includes warming and the “side effects” of warming—like melting glaciers, heavier rainstorms, or more frequent droughts and rainfall.
Climate change can affect the intensity and frequency of precipitation. Warmer oceans increase the amount of water that evaporates into the air. When more moisture-laden air moves over land or converges into a storm system, it can produce more intense precipitation—for example, heavier rain and snow storms.
Although the timing, duration, and intensity of the seasons vary naturally from year to year, climate change is driving longer-term changes in seasonality.
One of the most noticeable effects of climate change is the changing patterns of vegetation seasonality. This includes the timing of important biological events such as bud burst, the appearance of the first leaves, flowering and leaf fall.
In short, the four seasons don't have an equal amount of months anymore. Are the seasons shifting? In short, yes.
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