Climate Change

Our world is surrounded by a blanket of gases which keeps the surface of the earth warm and able to sustain life. This blanket is getting thicker as we burn fossil fuels which produces greenhouse gases, trapping heat and changing our climate drastically.

Greenhouse gases
This is a term used to refer to a number of gases that form a blanket around the planet. As this blanket thickens it traps in more heat strengthening the 'greenhouse effect'. The most significant greenhouse gas is CO₂.

Global warming
See climate change.

Carbon dioxide (CO ₂.)
The most abundant of the greenhouse gases which is released by burning fossil fuels.