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| Climate change
is the change in our weather patterns that are occurring because of an
increase in the earth's average temperature. |
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heard of this before. Some people call it global warming. |
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| This increase
in temperature causes more unpredictable and sometimes stormy weather.
These weather changes are stressful on animals, plants, people and the
environment. |
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Scientists now believe
that climate change is mostly caused by humans, by many of our daily
polluting activities that we don't always think about. |
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Climate-unfriendly
pollution |
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is created when we: |
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use
too much energy for our heating and air conditioning |
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use too many
appliances when we don't need too |
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drive when we could
walk, bike, bus or carpool |
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use too much water,
especially hot |
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make too much
garbage, instead of composting, recycling or buying stuff without lots of
wrapping |
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| Our planet is pretty
amazing!! It is flexible. So we do not have to stop everything we are
doing!! That would be too hard. But, if we ALL just try to do
what we can, we'll make a BIG DIFFERENCE! |
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You, me, our friends and families, must try our best to live our lives in a
earth-friendly way!!
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