Changing Climatic Patterns: Causes and Our Responsibility

Climate change is a change in the typical or average weather of a region or city. This could be a change in a region's average annual rainfall or it could be a change in a city's average temperature for a given month or season. Some causes of climate change are natural like Earth's orbit and the amount of energy coming from the sun. Ocean changes and volcanic eruption. But, during the past century, as a result of the Industrial Revolution, which has had enormous benefits for humans, the effects of human activities have become the main driver for climate change. Most scientists say it's very likely that most of the warming since the mid-1900s is due to the burning of coal, oil and gas. Burning these fuels is how we produce most of the energy that we use every day. This burning adds heat-trapping gases, such as carbon dioxide, into the air.