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An Introduction to Climate Change Phenomenon

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Long-term change in the average weather patterns of the earth’s local, regional, and global climates is called climate change. These changes have a broad range of observed effects. Climate change is mainly linked to changes, which the scientists observed over the current decade and those that are projected to be happening, mainly as a consequence of human behavior, in all the continents. Other reasons for climate change include greenhouse effect, global warming, urbanization, and deforestation. Due to these impacts of climate change, temperature rise, increase in CO2 concentration, seawater rise, and ocean acidity also took place in the past. The earth’s ecosystem is rapidly changing due to climate change. In this book chapter, we elaborate the reasons for the natural greenhouse gas emissions and the role of various stakeholders in the phenomenon of climate change.

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  1. Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

    Sahrish Naz, Zartash Fatima, Iqra Zakir, Ghulam Abbas & Shakeel Ahmad

  2. Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Pakeeza Iqbal

  3. Department of Agronomy, University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

    Amna Khan

  4. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Haseeb Ullah

  5. Department of Agronomy, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Mukhtar Ahmed

  6. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan

    Muhammad Mubeen & Sajjad Hussain

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  1. Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Bahawalpur, Pakistan

    Wajid Nasim Jatoi

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Pakistan

    Muhammad Mubeen

  3. Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand

    Ashfaq Ahmad

  4. Boreal Ecosystem and Agricultural Sciences, School of Science and the Environment, Memorial University-Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, NL, Canada

    Mumtaz Akhtar Cheema

  5. International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhaohui Lin

  6. Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

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Naz, S. et al. (2022). An Introduction to Climate Change Phenomenon. In: Jatoi, W.N., Mubeen, M., Ahmad, A., Cheema, M.A., Lin, Z., Hashmi, M.Z. (eds) Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79408-8_1

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