Governments, industry and people everywhere have to start reducing fossil fuel pollution as if our lives depended on it. Actually, the very survival of tens of thousands of species does depend on action to avoid dangerous climate change. |
If you keep pumping fossil fuel pollution into the atmosphere it traps heat near the Earth's surface and disrupts regular weather patterns. You get trends in extreme weather ... that we haven't seen before. |
It has been trending upwards over the past 150 years since the industrial revolution. |