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Climate Change
What is climate change?
Climate change is a long-term shift in the statistics of the weather (including its averages). For example, it could show up as a change in climate normals (expected average values for temperature and precipitation) for a given place and time of year, from one decade to the next. We know that the global climate is currently changing. The last decade of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st have been the warmest period in the entire global instrumental temperature record, starting in the mid-19th century (Source: NOAA).
Resources
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Global Climate Change - informational site by NASA
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Climate Kids - NASA informational site for children
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