Despite certain national leaders' stance of climate change as a fabricated hoax, I perceive climate change as an inevitability from the industrialization of the world and a threat to humanity's survival. The greenhouse effect that influences climate change occurs from greenhouses gases, which contain high heat capacity, receive and convert infrared radiation from the sun to heat. The gases then reflect the heat onto the Earth, however excess of the greenhouse gases induce the disruption of global weather patterns such as droughts and floods with the melting of the ice caps and ocean acidification. When humans burn fossil fuels, the carbon emitted as a biproduct of the energy obtained enters the atmosphere and binds with the preexisting oxygen within the atmosphere, forming carbon dioxide. Humans utilize methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons for industrial uses in agriculture, yet these gases are more potent to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The last decade was the warmest decade ever recorded, and the carbon dioxide levels drastically inclined from 280 par ts per million to 400 parts per million within the last 1.5 centuries. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from the United Nations, a probability higher than 95% of humanity's contributions to global warming within the recent 50 years exists. The panel also reported a rise in average temperature of about 2.5-10 degrees Fahrenheit. As long as the temperature increases, humanity will be the first species to witness the global pandemic of climate change as the weather patterns alter immensly and be the only species capable of preventing the catastrophe of global warming.
https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/