The Basics of Climate Change
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Climate change is the most important global challenge we face today. It threatens our security, our quality of life, our economic future, and our very lives.
Climate change -- also known as "global warming" -- is the gradual warming of the Earth's atmosphere to the point where the delicate ecological balance that keeps our planet livable becomes increasingly fragile and starts to break down.
This breakdown is already leading to what we call "extreme weather": larger and more frequent hurricanes, melting of the polar ice caps, droughts, unusually harsh and frequent blizzards, longer and hotter summers, and other dangerous changes in weather patterns.
As climate change gets worse, so will these extreme weather patterns, making life for us and other creatures increasingly hard -- perhaps even impossible -- to sustain.
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