Tag: climate
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How Climate Change Affects Human Health
Climate change affects human health in many different ways. One obvious one is high heat, since it could lead to heat related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and heatstroke. This is especially true for people that are more vulnerable, such as older adults, children, and people with certain medical conditions. This is especially true for…
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How Rising Sea Levels Are Threatening Coastal Communities and Ecosystems
Due to climate change, coastal communities and ecosystems worldwide are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels. Global warming is altering the ocean water due to thermal expansion, melting glaciers, and melting polar ice caps. These all contribute to sea level rise. This process takes time, but many of the coastal areas have already started recording…
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How Climate Change is Affecting Global Weather Patterns
In this article, we will talk about how climate change is altering the weather patterns around the world. It has already altered the weather patterns in many ways, and there are a lot more to come. As you may have noticed, there have been more frequent and severe extreme weather events (floods, hurricanes, droughts, etc.)…
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Adapting to Climate Change
In this post, we will talk about how to adapt to the climate crisis. By adapt, I mean how to overcome the outcomes of climate change and making it so that they don’t stop you from doing things you would do if climate change wasn’t so bad. This will mainly be helpful for those who…
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What will happen as the world gets hotter?
You might be wondering the things that will happen as the earth gets hotter. In this post, we will go over the outcomes of specific temperature increases and their potential effects. 1°C: This isn’t super bad, but also not good. This mainly lead to more severe heatwaves, which lead to things like droughts and desertification.…
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The Effects of Climate Change
In my last post, I said that the effects of climate change are bad. In this post, I am going to explain what the effects of climate change (both direct and indirect), how climate change causes them, and some of the outcomes of the effect. First, let’s talk about warming temperatures. As mentioned in the…