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The climate on Earth is changing
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The climate on Earth is changing. Weather phenomena like snow in the Sahara or violent winters in the United States can happen more and more often. Changes are also noticeable in Poland. Winters are less snowy and getting warmer, while in the summer there are more violent phenomena, such as storms or floods. Metamorphosis of the climate is related to the greenhouse effect and the change in the composition of the atmosphere, primarily with increasing the amount of carbon dioxide and methane.

- Climate change that is occurring is associated with a change in the composition of the atmosphere, with the greenhouse effect. More precisely, with human influence on the greenhouse effect. In the winter we see that the air temperature rises, in the summer, that the number of very violent phenomena increases, the cause is the same - says Newseria Innowacje information agency Michał Kowalewski, a climatologist from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management.

According to the report 'Climate status' of the US agency NOAA (National Agency for Research on the Ocean and Atmosphere), in 2016 global temperatures on the surface of the Earth were the highest in 137 years. The same was true for the temperature of the seas and oceans. These values were higher by 0.45˚-0.56˚C compared to the average for the period 1981-2010. Moreover, the level of greenhouse gases grew faster than in any other year. For example, the concentration of carbon dioxide for the first time exceeded 400 ppm (parts per million).

At the beginning of 2018 in the Sahara, the largest and hottest desert on Earth, snow fell. Although this phenomenon seems to be very peculiar, snow in the African desert has fallen the third time in the last 40 years. In December 2016, a small snow cover remained in the desert for a day while in 1979 the Algerian town of Ain Sefra was visited by a half-hour snowstorm. Such phenomena may appear more often.

'Snowfall in the Sahara is not a phenomenon that occurred for the first time, which was never before. However, in fact they are phenomena that do not happen every year, therefore they are surprising to us. The fact that in the Sahara the temperature falls below 0 degrees at night is a normal phenomenon that has always occurred, regularly - explains the expert.

Climate change is related to with human influence on the greenhouse effect and changes in the composition of the atmosphere. The amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere has been increasing for some time. As the climatologist admits, there will be less and less snowy winters every year, they will also be shorter. The situation is different in the case of summer. The temperature in the summer will not increase, but there will be more and more dangerous weather phenomena, such as violent thunderstorms.

- The climate on Earth is changing. At the turn of the century, more or less 20 years ago, we spoke about global warming. We now know that these phenomena are much more complicated, that warming is only one of the symptoms of climate change. Winters are definitely warmer, the temperature in the summer does not increase as fast as in winter, but we have many more violent phenomena like violent thunderstorms, several floods or sudden rains

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