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Changes in weather can also put jobs at risk, like shortening a farming season. This is beginning to happen where I live. Farmers near Edmonton can have trouble dealing with the inconsistency and prolonged winters or summers. ( S A H A J , E D M O N T O N , B L O G 2 A ) That these youth are connecting local weather changes to global climate change is notable, as Burger & Gochfield (2017) found that many people do not make this connection, constituting a large barrier to public recognition of climate change. It is also compelling that, in less than two decades of life, these youth report observing climatic changes that have usually occurred over millions of years, according to the geologic record; as Zalasiewicz et al. (2008) notes, though earth has been through many periods of greater warming and cooling, the rapid speed of change in the last century is unprecedented in earth's history. Team members also linked direct experiences of pollution to climate change, such as excess garbage and smog, as well as smoke from forest fires. Smog is especially prevalent, described as a serious experience linked to climate change in Accra, Nairobi, Delhi, Jakarta, Bogotá, Monterrey and Beijing. Sometimes the bad weather like smog or extremely hot or cold temperature stop me from walking or riding… its sometimes so bad my throat hurts. ( B E I J I N G , B L O G 2 A ) | 25 Y O U T H A N D C L I M A T E C H A N G E 2 0 1 8 E D I T I O N Global Warming The major stubble burning issue that took place in Punjab in the year 2017, that further led to my home city, Delhi getting extensively polluted is something that played a major role in the problem at hand, Climate Change. The pollution levels increased so drastically that some monitoring stations reported an Air Quality Index of 999, way above the upper limit of the worst category, 'Hazardous' This is inevitably an issue that is close to the hearts of several thousand people who reside in Delhi. I too was immensely shocked by these skyrocketing levels, and therefore found it hard not to depict it in a form of a painting that shows the burning of crops which is the root cause of the pollution problems that were caused in Delhi over the course of 2017. Source: https://gg.tigweb.org/tig/IPCC/111307 "Global Warming" by Priyanka Vinayak