Many factors effect climate; the Sun, volcanoes, variations in Earth's orbit around the Sun and greenhouse gases. Denialists would have you believe that realists think that realists think that only carbon dioxide effects climate, but it is denialists who make claims like only the Sun effects climate.

Rainfall above everything else. In fact it's the quantity of rainfall that we use to define various types of climate. Now after rainfall comes temperature.

Now this may interest you, and is completely relevant, as this is a relatively unobserved fact among non-scientists that reinforces this statement of rain and temperature. Africa has some beautiful mountains, and I can think of two off the top of my head that are snow peaked but are in an area of Africa where the base of the mountain is a Savannah climate zone. Now if you start walking up the mountain with the goal of the peak you continuously advance through each climate zone on your way up the mountain peak. The base is the tropical climate zone, the middle the temperate and the snow packed peaks the arctic. Now since we are talking about a single mountain a lot of the variables are already illuminated from the equation. In fact the only variables left is rainfall, and temperature, and even better we know that the mountain with it's altitude the temperature and it's impact is already known. I mean an arctic peak is colder than a tropic mountain base right? Thus you can infer that what rain falls and hits the peak may very well have evaporated before reaching the mountains base. This shows us exactly how much importance the rainfall has on the climate zones.

There are many factors that affect climate change. Some of the most common factors are carbon emissions that rise into our atmosphere and create a "greenhouse" effect, the main cause of global warming. However our climate is constantly changing naturally, which is

evident from records of ice ages and the organic molecules found in parts of the earth that wouldn't contain them with its present climate. Fossil Fuels in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada is an example of this.

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http://www.schs.ca/files/book-attachment...

Global warming < pollution < human endeavors, so ultimately humanity affects climate. EverytHing else happens natural

The basics are

temperature

humidity

atmospheric pressure

wind

precipitation

Everything anyone does has an effect on our environment whether good or bad!