The extensive use of fracking in the US, where it has revolutionised the energy industry, has prompted environmental concerns. The first is that fracking uses huge amounts of water that must be transported to the fracking site, at significant environmental cost.
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the statistics of atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.
Altiplano (highlands) â Lake Titicaca, La Paz, Oruro, Cochabamba, Sucre, PotosÃ­ and Uyuni. Climate varies from cool and humid to semi-arid. The average temperature ranges from 15 to 27Â°C (60 â 80ÂºF) with the coldest temperatures occurring in the south-western portion of the Altiplano during the months of June and July.