Space

• Climate change


  Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns which is a result of human activity
• More greenhouse gases


  • More thermal energy is absorbed
  • Greater the greenhouse effect

  
• Human activities


  • Main driver of climate change
  • Increasing the production of greenhouse gases by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas for energy
  • Farming livestock for food
  • Decreasing methods of decomposing greenhouse gases by cutting down trees
• Green carbon


  Naturally occurring carbon that exists in our atmosphere and as part as our carbon cycle

  
• Fossil carbon


  Added carbon that comes from humans burning fossil fuels and adds to the increasing levels of carbon in the atmosphere
• Disruption in the Carbon Cycle

  
• Impacts of climate change

  • Wildfires
  • Floods
  • Heat waves
• How space can help combat climate change

  1. Satellites monitor various climate variables

  2. The sun is a sustainable source of energy that can replace fossil fuels