CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions. Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, such as air pollution or smoking by  burning rubbish or fumes from cars and vapor from warm water or foods. The weather is unpredicted, it changes most of the time so we have weather forecasts who research into our climate change every year and bring the statistics out to the public for everybody to prepare but even for them at times the weather does mislead them, so in fact the weather cannot be predicted

We have the dry season also known as harmattan season and rainy season.

During the dry season we have a low rainfall where our grasses and leafs becomes dry and even the human body shrinks to the extent that if you do not apply much body cream your skin begins to wear off. It comes in the month of December and January.

During the rainy season, this is where we record much floods in most parts of the African countries. In this season we do get a lot of foodstuffs such as tomatoes, yam, cassava etc. but those who  live in the rural areas really suffer due to the way their houses have being structured. The rain wash away most of their properties, the roads of those in the urban areas get flooded because most of their gutters are choked with rubbish.  It comes in the months of June and July.

HOW DO GHANAIANS PREPARE TOWARDS THIS SEASONS

Some ghanaians have expressed their views that during these seasons especially the harmattan season they buy shea butters for their skin so that it would not shrink and lip gloss for their mouth so that they will not get dry and they always take an umbrella along with them anywhere they go during the rainy season.

BY: MARIAN GLORIA GYAMFI

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