HOW DO WE KNOW HUMANS ARE CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE?
hat is climate change?
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Yes, we know humans are responsible for the climate change we see today. But here’s the good news: Human-caused climate change can be human-solved climate change.
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e know that carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere.
And we know that humans are burning fossil fuels, releasing huge amounts of carbon pollution and trapping more and more heat in the atmosphere.
There’s only one conclusion: humans are the primary reason we see our climate changing today.
That’s the short of it. But let’s dive into the details.
Climate change is a change in the pattern of weather, and related changes in oceans, land surfaces and ice sheets, occurring over time scales of decades or longer