Impact of Climate Change to the Environment

• CLIMATE

  • Average weather in an area over a longer period of time
  • Long-term weather pattern in a region
• CLIMATE CHANGE

  • Long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place. Climate change could refer to a particular location or the planet as a whole.
• What Driven Climate Change?

  1. Human Activities

  • Fossil fuel burning
  • Cutting down forest
  • Livestock Farming
• (Human Activities) → increased greenhouse gases → higher temperature → Global Warming
• 2. Natural Processes

  > Cyclical Ocean Patterns

  • La Nina
  • El Nino

  > External Forces

  • Volcanic Activity
  • Earth's orbit variation
• WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?

  • the long-term heating of Earth's climate system
  • most commonly measured as the average increase in Earth's global surface temperature