"CLIMATE CHANGE"

"Too often are we told to save Mother Earth, and too often have we taken it for granted."

Typhoons, landslides, tsunamis, and earthquakes are a few of the causes of the tragedies we have been experiencing. These supposedly natural phenomena bring us shivers. Millions and millions of people have died.

The question is, are they really to blame? No. We are. We are to blame for the tragic stories that this generation has lived through. We have forgotten our responsibility, to nurture the universe we live in. Toxic chemicals in our bodies of water, garbage everywhere, and careless use of our resources are just a few of the things our world has resulted into.

Climate change has already been synonymous to global climate. In Wikipedia, the definition is "Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, andvolcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global warming".

Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical models. A climate record — extending deep into the Earth's past — has been assembled, and continues to be built up, based on geological evidence from borehole temperature profiles, cores removed from deep accumulations of ice, floral and faunal records, glacial and periglacial processes, stable-isotope and other analyses of sediment layers, and records of past sea levels. More recent data are provided by the instrumental record. General circulation models, based on the physical sciences, are often used in theoretical approaches to match past climate data, make future projections, and link causes and effects in climate change."

So the next time you think of throwing your "pinagkainan" anywhere, remember all the people you have/you will indirectly kill.