Climate change is a broad concept that includes the manifold global climate disturbances experienced in the present-day world. It includes changes in average temperature, greater extremities of temperature, changes in weather patterns such as storms and floods, as well as changes to the carbon cycle and ocean acidification dynamics. In essence, climate change is the result of anthropogenic activities that modify the Earth's planetary ecologies, primarily caused by increased concentrations of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which result in the heightened global temperature.

See also: climate justice, climate collapse, climate chaos, late-stage capitalism