Spotlight on Climate Change: Causes of Climate Change
For Mom and Dad
Table of Contents Chapter 1 IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE 4 Chapter 2 UNDERSTANDING FOSSIL FUELS 11 Chapter 3 CONTRIBUTING FACTORS 17 Chapter 4 ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE 24 You Can Help 29 Glossary 30 Learn More 31 Index 32
Chapter 1 IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE We see climate change in the news every day from flooding and wildfires to protests in the streets It affects many people through natural disasters bad food-growing seasons and heat waves But what exactly is climate change and what causes it 4
Young people around the world are protesting the actions causing climate change such as burning fossil fuels Climate change is a complex problem caused by Earth’s atmosphere rapidly warming It is hard to see directly but we can see the effects of climate change in the increasing number of intense storms and weather events each year Understanding climate change and its causes is an important step in figuring out how to fix it 5
