20 Best Countries to Live Considering Climate Change Climate change is posing existential threats to the world. It has become evident with extreme weather, shrinking glaciers, accelerated sea levels, and record floods that global climate change is on the verge of destroying the environment. Climate change can be referred to as the significant increase in Earth’s temperature due to activities like burning fossil fuels (leading to carbon emission), deforestation, and intensive agriculture. The more scientific aspect of this change is Global Warming, caused by the increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. According to the Annual Climate Report 2020 report by NOAA, the land and ocean temperature have increased at an average of 0.08 degrees Celsius per decade since 1880. This change in temperature does not only affect humans but puts wildlife in equal danger. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that this temperature rise may put 20-30% of species at the risk of extinction. The year 2020 was 1.2C hotter than the average year in the nineteenth century. The average land and ocean temperature globally was recorded at 0.98C in 2020, compared to 0.92C in 2019. This temperature rise caused the ever so destructive wildfire in the U.S. state of California, burning more than 471,000 acres. In 2020, U.S. suffered a loss of over $258 billion due to weather catastrophes.