Climate Change Crisis: Urgent Call to Action for A Sustainable Future

Climate change is the world's current issue that should be addressed by people all over the world. Climate change is a long-term change in weather patterns that affect global climates on earth. It also affects the change of temperatures which makes the earth warmer at 1.1 c. The global land and ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, melting ice in mountain glaciers and earth's poles, variations in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather such as hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires, drought floods, and precipitation, and also shifts in cloud and vegetation cover is the example of climate change effects by the climate data records. These changes are mostly caused by human activities, particularly fossil, fuel burning, oil and gas, factories, and transport which increase levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere, thereby increasing the average temperature of the earth's surface. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by about 50% since the Industrial Revolution started and humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels. Natural processes, which have been overwhelmed by human activities, may also contribute to climate change. These include external forcings such as volcanic activity, variations in Earth's orbit, and changes in the Sun's energy output, as well as internal variability like cyclical ocean patterns like El Nino, La-Nina, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. We, people all over the world should make a change towards this situation. The activity such as Net zero CO2 emissions (reducing greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible, and removing any remaining emissions from the atmosphere) could change our future lives. But small things that we can do such as using public transportation rather than ours, turn of lamps and using less energy, reducing water waste, recycling food and other organic waste into compost, and reducing, reusing, and recycling the "recyclable" goods can also prevent the climate change. It's time for us to change, It's time for us to make a difference, and It's time for us to save our future lives.

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