Science Common Sense

1397 - What are the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, global warming, and abnormal precipitation?

Imagine the Earth like your home. Climate change is like a big problem that affects it. Here are some key impacts:

1. Rising Sea Levels: The polar ice is melting, and that's making the sea levels go up. This means that coastlines and islands might flood, and some areas might even disappear.

2. Global Warming: The Earth is getting warmer, like your room when you turn up the heater. This is causing weird weather, super-strong storms, and really hot summers.

3. Abnormal Precipitation: This means it's either raining a lot more than usual or hardly rained at all. Some places might get super-flooded, while others are super-dry.

Some more impacts include:

• Extreme Weather: Really strong storms, or extremely cold winters.
• Animal Homes: Many animals can't adapt to these changes, and might lose their homes or even disappear.
• Grows Less Food: The warmer weather and weird rain can make it harder to grow food, like fruits and veggies.
• Get Sick Easier: Climate change can spread diseases faster and make people sicker.
• Water Shortages: Some places might not have enough water to drink or clean with.

We all need to do our part to help the Earth and try to stop these changes from happening, or at least, slow them down.