Climate change
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climate-change-184-9660777
title:
Climate change
text:
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. The current rise in global average temperature is primarily caused by humans burning fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel use, deforestation, and some agricultural and industrial practices add to greenhouse gases. These gases absorb
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Human-caused changes to climate on Earth
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
date created:
2001-10-30T17:25:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T19:23:35Z
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