This is known as the greenhouse effect.

Example of cause and effect of climate change. Amounts and patterns of precipitation are changing. The earth over its 45 billion. Moreover another cause that affects climate changes is the earths orbital changes.

Declining water supplies reduced agricultural yields health impacts in cities due. Extreme heat heavy downpours and flooding will affect infrastructure health agriculture forestry transportation air and water quality and more. Climate change and water Rising sea level reduced ice cover thawing of permafrost loss of marine.

Read more about feedback in Climate systems. In 2007 for example water scarcity crop failures and livestock deaths stemming in part from climate-related drought drove an estimated 15 million people to the cities from rural areas in Syria helping spark the horrifying civil war that displaced millions more. Climate change will also exacerbate a range of risks to the Great Lakes.

The effects of climate change span the physical environment ecosystems and human societies. More details about the effects of global warming. Causes of climate change Greenhouse gases.

Although water vapour absorbs heat it does not accumulate in the atmosphere in the same way as other greenhouse gases. Climate change is a term that refers to major changes in temperature rainfall snow or wind patterns lasting for decades or longer. Climate change and health Health effects risks food and water security infectious diseases and populations at risk.

Sea levels are rising due to thermal expansion of the ocean in addition to melting of land ice. Climate change is caused mainly by increase of human activity and industrialisation. Both human-made and natural factors contribute to climate change.