Climate Action What is climate change?

Meet Tom Tom is a college professor that teaches weather and climate.

During one of his lectures, one of his students asked why there are so many natural disasters happening in the world recently, specifically hurricanes and wildfires.

Tom tells them that many factors can contribute to the increasing storms, but the main causes climate change.

Tom explains to them that climate change is the change of weather patterns over an extended period of time.

He uses the example of the rising sea levels because of the melting ice caps, thes areas that have been frozen for hundreds of years, air starting to melt because the area around them is getting too hot as faras hurricanes, they're becoming stronger and appearing more frequently because of the increase in the temperature around large bodies of water, droughts and wildfires.

Air also becoming more common and have begun to destroy large parts of the western United States.

Tom also tells his students that humans play a large role in climate change.

Driving cars, processing, food and smoking are all factors that contribute to the growing epidemic.

Burning fossil fuels is one of the biggest factors of climate change, and it's doing lasting damage to the Earth.

Once these resource is air gone, there is no getting them back in.

Their effects on the Earth are mostly permanent.

Tom students are in luck, though, because there are many ways that humans can fight back against the harmful effects of climate change.

Reducing climate change is possible by making minor changes to daily routines and through advocating clean energy.

Reducing our carbon footprint is one of the easiest ways to do this.

Tom suggested that his students that live off campus, walk where, bike to class or even start carpooling so there are fewer cars on the road.

He also tells them the importance of renewable energy such as solar energy, and that they should petition to get solar panels installed in school and other nearby areas.