ABSTRACT
Global climate change is manifested in severity of short-term weather events as well as long-term modifications of spatial and temporal differences in temperature, rainfall, and wind. In spite of continuing popular debate, anthropogenic climate change is a reality accepted by serious analysts in meteorology (Blanc and Riley 2017). Whether change is partly due to long-term cycles or primarily caused by human activities such as massive burning of fossil fuels and land use changes leading to increased greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere is a moot issue. The large majority of scientific studies describe the change as real and attributed to human activities (Oreskes 2018). Our current challenge is to seek rational ways to mitigate and cope with the impacts of current build-up of carbon dioxide and other GHGs in order to maintain a livable environment for humans, crops, and other species that sustain us (Altieri and Nicholls 2017).
