Human activity has caused most of the increase in global temperature since 1950!

The main causes of climate change through human activity include burning fossil fuels, production of meat and crops through farming and agriculture and deforestation to make space for use of land. These activities release greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and cause the global temperature to rise

Arctic sea ice and glaciers are melting away!

One of the biggest effects of global warming is how it is causing ice glaciers in the Arctic to melt. There were approximately 150 glaciers in the Glacier National Park in Montana in the US in 1910 but they were recounted in 2017 and there were only 26! The melting ice causes the sea levels to rise and will affect people that live in areas that depend on water from melting glaciers for their drinking water.

Rainforest destruction releases mass amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Trees and forests store carbon dioxide as they grow so are known as ‘carbon sinks’ Large amounts of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere when humans cut down rainforests or they are destroyed by wildfires. This contributes to the greenhouse effect and increases the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, contributing further to global warming.