Higher secondary students awareness on climate change in Nadia district

Climate change is the change of surface temperature, precipitation patterns winds, ocean currents and other measures of earth’s climate. We observed over the one to two centuries some phenomenon of earth global surface temperature rising, global sea level rising, snow cover decreasing etc. Both natural and anthropogenic causes are the responsible for this changes. Natural causes are continental drift, Galactic variation, orbital variations, obliquity, Eccentricity, Precession, sun spot, solar activity etc. Anthropogenic causes mainly are greenhouse gas emissions from using fossil fuel, industralization, transport and communication, deforestation etc. The combination of natural and anthropogenic causes leads to a set of affects (e,g. global warming ,ozone layer depletation, changes in socio economic cOndition) and consequences (e,g. disruption in agriculture, sea level rise, increase in the frequency of draughts/floods). Climatologist used differents models to predict the future climate change. It is projected that the global surface temperature will increase nearly 1 to 60 c from 2000 to 2100. The precipitation pattern will also increase in subpolar latitudes during winter, decreases rainfall in midlatitudes particularly in summer. The situation is alarming and different organisation and country have attempt to prevent this changes. The present study was aims to investigate the concept of awareness in climate change of higher secondary school students of Nadia District. Concept and attitude of environment awareness in climate change was measured by questionnaire. The data were analyzed with the help of statistical techniques like mean, Standard deviation and t-value. The result of Analysis shows that, there exists significant difference in awareness on climate change among higher secondary school student. Science students are more aware than commerce and arts students in climate change.