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Climate change
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We hear a lot nowadays about 'climate change'. Whenever, or wherever, an extreme weather event occurs - like fires and flodding, we hear it may be due to 'climate change'.
It may well be, as there is always a complex mixture of circumstances. But CC is driven by global warming, altering the the way currents of water and air move around, often disrupting existing patterns of behaviours.
Climate changes could have enormous consequences such as food
shortages (as crops fail), violent storms and more hurricanes,
new pests and diseases, melting of icecaps, flooding of low
lying areas (as sea levels rise), and the extinction of many
plants and animals as conditions change.
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2002 Edition
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