Good morning and welcome the Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Monday, September 23rd,

2019. And we begin with our long hot summer now officially in the rearview mirror.

At 350 this morning, eastern time, fall marched in.

That was the moment the sum was directly over the equator,

marking the start of the autumnal equinox for the northern hemisphere.

Equinox comes from the Latin words Iquales and Knox, which means equal and night.

Because in most of the world right now the amount of daylight and darkness

are about the same and for the record the weather doesn't change because Earth's

distance from the sun changes fall like seasons, is caused by the planets tilt in relation to the sun.

Continents in the north now tilt away from the sun, so the weather in North America, Europe, and parts of Asia will start to get colder.

Continents in the southern hemisphere, including Australia and parts of South America and Africa,

are tilted toward the sun, so they're headed into spring.

Students around the world had their say on Friday.

Greta Tumberry, the Swedish teenage activist, had hers on Saturday

and today the adults get their shot as the United Nations Climate

Action Summit kicks off in New York City.

World leaders from 60 countries will be there with the UN's top official, Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez,

warning them ahead of time against making beautiful speeches and empty promises.

He wants them coming with concrete plans for reducing global warming.

In fact, he is not giving the spotlight to any country that is building new fossil fuel power plants or ignoring emissions commitments. The U.S.

Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Japan are reportedly among the countries not

allowed to speak. A fourth grader from St Louis is being credited

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