Here at Blue Sky Stock Footage, we love to travel and be out in nature and visit the diverse climates of our planets. One climate we live in is desert of the Southwest, therefore we have vast footage collection of the desert climate. We live in awe of the sparsity of the flora and fauna: uncrowded upon life with scattered spareness and simplicity, life is vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light and openness and freedom are a sight to behold, which we do at Blue Sky Stock Footage. Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area. Weather can change from hour-to-hour, day-to-day, month-to-month or even year-to-year. A region's weather patterns, usually tracked for at least 30 years, are considered its climate.  
 
Different parts of the world have different climates; between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many other climates that contribute to Earth's biodiversity and geologic heritage. Climate is determined by a region's climate system, includes five major components: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the land surface, and the biosphere. The atmosphere is the most variable part of the climate system and the composition and movement of gases surrounding the Earth can change radically, influenced by natural and man-made factors. Small variations, called microclimates, exist in every climate region. Microclimates are largely influenced by topographic features such as lakes, vegetation, and cities. In large urban areas, for example, streets and buildings absorb heat from the Sun, raising the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby, known as the urban heat island effect. Large bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes in the United States and Canada, can also have microclimates. Cities on the southern side of Lake Ontario, for example, are cloudier and receive much more snow than cities on the northern shore. This lake effect is a result of cold winds blowing across warmer lake water.  
 
Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, human activity has begun to impact climate; the current period of climate change is sometimes called global warming. Global warming is often associated with a runaway greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect describes the process of certain gases (including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxide (N2O), fluorinated gases, and ozone) trapping solar radiation in a planet's lower atmosphere. Greenhouse gases let the sun's light shine onto the Earth's surface, but they trap the heat that reflects back up into the atmosphere. In this way, they act like the glass walls of a greenhouse.  
 
The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon and keeps Earth warm enough to sustain life; however, human activities that includes burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate. The current period of climate change has been documented by rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and more intense weather phenomena.  
 
Climate change can be mitigated through reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. This can mean investing in new technologies, relying more on renewable energy sources, making older equipment more energy-efficient, or changing consumer behavior.  
 
Desert Places by Robert Lee Frost 
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast 
In a field I looked into going past,  
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,  
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.  
 
 
The woods around it have it, it is theirs.  
All animals are smothered in their lairs.  
I am too absent-spirited to count;  
The loneliness includes me unawares.  
 
 
And lonely as it is, that loneliness 
Will be more lonely ere it will be less 
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow 
With no expression, nothing to express.  
 
 
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces 
Between stars, on stars where no human race is.  
I have it in me so much nearer home 
To scare myself with my own desert places.