The City of Port Townsend, Washington tourism guide. Learn about things to do when visiting and the history of Port Townsend with our guide of the city and surrounding area.
Learn more about how climate change will affect people and the environment in the following ways: 1  Agriculture. 2  Energy. 3  Water Supplies. 4  Health. 5  Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. 6  Forests. 7  Recreation.
WEATHER AND CLIMATE. The atmosphere surrounding our planet Earth sustains life and affects our lives in inumerable ways. It contains life-supporting oxygen and limits the effects of radiation from the Sun. Climate and weather are a result of the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere and its interactions with the landforms and oceans of Earth. Over the centuries people have gathered a wealth of information about climate and weather but there is much that is not yet understood.