When it comes right down to it, climate change is all about gas. Specifically, gas released into the atmosphere when energy is consumed. When you fart, that's contributing to climate change, just a little. And when gasoline is guzzled and oil is used, it releases a lot of gas. Like a mega-fart. All those mega-farts combined create more gas than humans have ever produced before, and it's causing problems.

All this gas goes up into the air and creates a kind of blanket, so heat from the sun becomes trapped. This raises the temperature of the earth a few degrees and sets off a chain reaction of events including droughts, flood, and unpredictable weather. The trend is worrying.

Some call this global warming, yet the term climate change is also used because a few degrees of temperature change can have a variety of effects apart from warmer weather. It can trigger droughts in some areas, floods in others, or it can even cool some parts of the world. The exact results are still unclear.

That doesn't sound good. So what can we do? Stop farting. Or at least cut down on the mega-farts caused by using fossil fuels. It takes gas to ship products to our local stores and gas for us to drive there and buy them. The less of this energy we use, the less we'll be affected by climate change and the better off we'll be. Plus, it'll smell a lot nicer.

-Jess