{"id":3004,"date":"2023-07-18T22:13:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T04:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/?page_id=3004"},"modified":"2023-07-18T22:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T04:25:25","slug":"what-is-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/what-is-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3004\" class=\"elementor elementor-3004\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0295b0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d0295b0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-892cdfe\" data-id=\"892cdfe\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d07bc5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d07bc5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>The Short Answer:\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p>Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth\u2019s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term.<\/p><p><b>Climate Change<\/b><\/p><p>Changes observed in Earth\u2019s climate since the early 20th century are primarily driven by human activities, particularly fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth\u2019s atmosphere, raising Earth\u2019s average surface temperature.<\/p><p>Natural processes can also contribute to climate change, including internal variability (e.g., cyclical ocean patterns like El Ni\u00f1o, La Ni\u00f1a and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation) and external forces (e.g., volcanic activity, changes in the Sun\u2019s energy output, variations in Earth\u2019s orbit).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-409ac69\" data-id=\"409ac69\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bb13d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4bb13d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/climate.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2e5c51d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2e5c51d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ab82db1\" data-id=\"ab82db1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5067f91 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"5067f91\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/ttr-climate-change\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Back to TTR Climate Change<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4529219\" data-id=\"4529219\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Short Answer:\u00a0 Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth\u2019s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term. Climate Change Changes observed in Earth\u2019s climate since the early 20th century are primarily driven <a href=\"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/what-is-climate-change\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about What is Climate Change?<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_theme","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3004","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3004\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttr292.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}