Climate change
Climate change refers to the concern that the world's activities are preventing heat from escaping into space, thus increasing the temperatures around the world.
The increasing temperatures are resulting in global warming which has the effect of melting the icecaps and has the potential of increasing sea levels around world thus causing flooding in low lying areas.
If this happens then continents will lose low lying coastal areas. There will need to be flood defences in many countries to protect large areas of land. Low lying islands may not be able to be saved and will just disappear under water.
If the ice caps are completely melted then we will potentially have a catastrophe on our hands!
Climate change usually refers to changes in modern climate caused by global warming.
Because of this global warming the different climates around the world are potentially going to change. The fear is that desert areas will increase in size and temperature changes will change the plants and trees that can survive under the new conditions of each area.
Climate change will probably not make too much differenc to the UK in the near future.
Climate Change - the scientific debate