Climate Change Over Time

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In today’s society, we live around the weather. The weather affect our everyday living. The weather is the state of atmosphere at a particular time and place, its temperature humidity, pressure and precipitation, wind and clouds. However, the climate change the weather in a big way. The climate change is a long term change in the earth’s climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature.
The climate change affect the earth climate. The earth have being changing since 4.6 billion year. In today’s century, we live in the Phanerozine eon, the Cenozoic era, the Quaternary period, and the Holocene epoch. However, the earth change overtime, could it be human or natural affecting the climate change over time?
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Human contribute to climate change or global warming in many ways. For example; burning of fossil fuels, greenhouses gases, pollution and large forest who has been cut down. Natural contribute to climate change also, like the change of earth orbit, the change in ocean currents, and the sun solar energy. I think both, human and natural play a big role in the climate change. They both deal with something that effect the earth climate. At the end of the day, I think both contribute the same weight to the climate

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