Northern Japan, Africa, and Asia had their hottest summer ever since they started tracking climate data. Last year Envirothon, an environmental conservation club, studied and focused on ways to counteract certain climate damage.

  “I would define global warming as the irregular warming of the atmosphere due to man-made chemicals,” senior and Envirothon club member Ryan Malcolm said.

Memorable records were set for the second hottest summers for Bahrain, Israel, and North America according to the National Climate Center for Environmental Information (NCEI).      

 “July was insane. It was incredible, you know like I was working and the heat was intense,” Malcolm said. “There are a few summers harder than others, but this summer was definitely abnormally warm.”

    Global Climate Change has become a more talked about issue in recent years.  Many groups have put out plans to slow or stop global climate change, such as the “National Climate Task Force (NCTF),” and the “National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)” (with more local causes like the Richmond, Virginia (RVA) climate equal action plan 2030.

    “Everything you do, everything you use, everything you buy takes energy to produce,” Envirothon sponsor Kimberly Jancaitis said. “So if you can use less energy, then you are going to have a bigger impact.”

 Recommended plans focus on problems like carbon-emission cars, and more jobs that are pollution-free in bigger cities, but there are more easily changeable things that the everyday person can help out with. Some examples from the National Climate Task Force (NCTF) and Richmond Virginia (RVA) climate equality action plan 2030 carpooling, starting a rain garden, and working towards getting solar panels. Those and other simple actions are what multiple articles believe make all the difference.

   “I know a lot of people think that one person can’t do anything, but if nobody does anything, nothing’s going to change,” Jancaitas stated.