What is the ultimate proof of climate change?
Before answering the question, we need to know what climate change is.
Climate change is the global variation of the Earth's climate. This variation is due to natural causes and the action of man and occurs on all climatic parameters: temperature, rainfall, cloudiness, etc., at very different time scales.
The consequences of climate change now include, but are not limited to, severe droughts, water shortages, severe fires, rising sea levels, floods, melting of the poles, catastrophic storms and declining biodiversity.
One of the proofs of climate change is Temperature, which is not an isolated effect of global climate change, but also generates other phenomena such as droughts, hurricanes or forest fires.
Droughts are another test and, as stated above, it is the consequence of rising temperatures and can have devastating effects on human health, food availability, animals and the land. Drought periods occur when there is an imbalance between evaporation and precipitation.
Every problem brings an opportunity. There are already significant financial resources for climate change adaptation and mitigation. The fight against climate change can help accelerate economic and energy transformations, drive technological revolutions and stimulate the creation of new production models.
This requires the participation of citizens willing and able to effectively resolve the global climate crisis.
By Ana Sofía Durán, Step 11
