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  1. The Causes of Climate Change - NASA Science

    Oct 23, 2024 · FORCING: Something acting upon Earth's climate that causes a change in how energy flows through it (such as long-lasting, heat-trapping gases - also known as greenhouse …

  2. Causes of Climate Change | US EPA

    3 days ago · However, recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone. Changes in the earth’s orbit and its axis of rotation have had a big impact on climate in the past.

  3. What Causes Climate Change? Human and Natural Causes - NRDC

    Sep 13, 2022 · Some amount of climate change can be attributed to natural phenomena. Over the course of Earth’s existence, volcanic eruptions, fluctuations in solar radiation, tectonic shifts, …

  4. Causes and Effects of Climate Change | United Nations

    As greenhouse gas emissions blanket the Earth, they trap the sun’s heat. This leads to global warming and climate change. The world is now warming faster than at any point in recorded …

  5. Causes of climate change - Wikipedia

    The scientific community has been investigating the causes of current climate change for decades. After thousands of studies, the scientific consensus is that it is "unequivocal that …

  6. 9.1: What Makes the Climate Change? - Biology LibreTexts

    There are two parts to climate change, the first one is known as climate forcing, which is when conditions change to give the climate a little nudge in one direction or the other. The second …

  7. Understanding Climate Change: Causes, Impacts, and Potential …

    Jul 27, 2025 · At the heart of climate change is a deceptively simple mechanism—the greenhouse effect. Like the glass of a greenhouse, certain gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap heat. Sunlight …

  8. Global warming - Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, Pollution

    Nov 24, 2025 · What has been subject to controversy is the so-called enhanced greenhouse effect, which is associated with increased concentrations of greenhouse gases caused by …

  9. Climate Change Overview | Climate Change Knowledge Portal

    Climate change is the significant variation of average weather conditions becoming, for example, warmer, wetter, or drier—over several decades or longer. It is the longer-term trend that …

  10. Why is climate change happening and what are the causes?

    Climate change has always happened on Earth, which is clearly seen in the geological record; it is the rapid rate and the magnitude of climate change occurring now that is of great concern …