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Climate Change: How Is It Accelerating? By: Aelita Arshakyan
Climate change has long been a problem that scientists have been concerned about. An extra single degree of heat can heavily influence all life on Earth.
According to the UN organization, health and ecosystems would be in far greater conditions if our world’s leaders could somehow try to limit human-caused warming. If it can just be limited to 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the 1.8 degrees now, there would be substantially fewer heat waves, less spread of diseases and illnesses, and other improvements. More than 90 scientists have contributed to the report and more than 6,000 peer reviews have been conducted. Although limiting warming to a lower goal may seem impossible, it is truly up to governments to decide whether they should act upon this issue.    
New research has shown that the world’s oceans have absorbed far more heat than previously estimated. The study shows that over the past 27 years, the world’s oceans have retained 60 percent more heat each year than research teams had previously thought.
Global climate change continues to affect the environment in many ways. As a result of the absorbed heat on our atmosphere, glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes has begun to break, and plant and animal ranges have shifted.


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