Climate Change Summary 9/20/2012

Climate change is when a change is caused by events that occurred for a period of time. This period of time can range from a few years to millions of years. These events can be something so small such as human daily activities, such as driving a car and other environmental events like natural disasters. Landscapes is also part of climate change, the change of the ocean, plate tectonics, volcanoes, and more can affect the climate majorly. Scientists says that the Earth's climate system includes the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. Events outside of Earth such as the solar system also affects the climate's change. Solar system events like rotation and energy given out by the solar system will cause change too. The position of the Earth such as tilting will also cause climate change. Therefore, climate change is occurring every second on Earth but the speed depends on the amount of affect caused by others.