SEARCHLIGHT BOOKS Climate Change Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels Kevin Kurtz Lerner Publications Minneapolis
4 Chapter 1 CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR WATERY PLANET The sea level is rising The top of the ocean is 4 to 8 inches 10 to 20 cm higher than it was a century ago By 2100 the sea level is likely to be at least 3 feet 91 cm higher than it is today Tuvalu an island in the South Pacific will likely be the first country to disappear underwater from rising sea levels
5 SNOW IS AN EXAMPLE OF WEATHER IF AN AREA HAS LESS AND LESS SNOWFALL EACH YEAR THAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE The sea level is rising because of climate change Climate is related to weather Weather is what is happening in the air outside at any moment Climate is the typical weather for an area It is the weather you should expect based on what weather was like in the past If the weather keeps being different from what it used to be that is climate change
