A history of climate change
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What is climate change?
The Earth’s climate is not static. Over the billions of years of Earth’s existence, it has changed many times in response to natural causes.
However, when people talk about ‘climate change’ today, they mean the changes in temperature over the last 100 years caused by human activity. During this time, the average temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface has risen by about 0.75 degrees Celsius.
Nearly all climate scientists agree that global temperatures wil...
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