Causes of climate change: what is the effect of human activities?

Many people are confused about whether climate change is caused by human activities. Scientists say climate change is caused by natural factors – but that these are made worse by human activities. So climate change is happening more quickly because of things like mismanagement of waste, and overexploitation of natural resources. We've explained some of the science in plain language to help more people understand the effect of human activities on climate change.

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