Climate change can be generally referred to the overall change in regional, continental or global climate patterns. These changes care normally very significant as they tend to have lasting impacts on the distribution of weather patterns over long periods of time ranging from a few to millions of years. Adaptation to climate change simply refers to the efforts that mankind is deploying in general to get ready for any future changes in climate. The efforts can be with the main objective of protecting the ecosystem from negative/adverse impacts that come along climate change or rather they can be with the aim of taking advantage of the benefits that the climate changes may bring forth.( White, J. C. (1991). Explain why adaptation to climate change is necessary and discuss how we might adapt urban areas to future climate change and extreme weather events.