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Impact of climate change

The video explains nature and causes of climate change and highlights an urgent need to respond to the effects of climate change.

Here Hellen Dawo explains nature and causes of climate change and highlights an urgent need to respond to the effects of climate change.

Climate is defined as the average weather over space and time. Climate change means that the way the atmosphere behaves is different from the predictions. This change needs to persist for an extended period of time. Climate change is identified using statistical tests that show differences in the average from the results of other calculations.

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