Climate Change Explained
In this day and age, climate change is all the rage. We hear about wildfires, heat waves, polar bears losing their sea ice, coral bleaching, approaching doom... Once upon a time it was easy to just look away and go about our daily lives, but the media is making that harder as the effects of climate change worsen. Is global warming the same thing as climate change? Is it already too late to make any difference? What even is climate change? These are all excellent questions that I hope to touch on in this post. Let's start by clarifying some terms. Weather is day-to-day changes in factors such as temperature and precipitation. Climate is the long-term weather patterns of an area. Climate change refers to any long-term changes in Earth's climate. Global warming is specifically talking about the heating of our planet. Although the terms global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably, global warming is only par...