Global Warming

Global warming or climate change means measurable increases in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere, landmasses and oceans. Scientists believe Earth is currently facing a period of rapid warming brought on by rising levels of heat-trapping gases, known as greenhouse gases, in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases retain the heat provided to Earth by the Sun in a process known as the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases occur naturally, and without them the planet would be too cold to sustain life as we know it. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1700s, however, human activities have added more and more of these gases into the atmosphere.

There are many misconceptions about global warming. Some believe that pollution causes global warming, but the fact is global warming is the result of burning fossil fuels, coal, and oil that release carbon dioxide. Another misconception is nuclear power causes climate change. Nuclear power actually reduces emissions of carbon dioxide when used in place of coal. Some believe that global warming means that it will become warmer all over. The name is misleading because in some places, it will actually become colder. The majority of scientists believe global warming is a process underway and that it is human-induced. Global warming is threatening our existence. The whole world is speaking about it. Governments are spending billions on closely monitoring and watching climate change. The modern world and its mind thinks and looks to solution to every problem through the same binocular, which is the cause for the present state of the world.

The world faces serious threats from unchecked global warming. Cities and villages, farms and forests, coastlines and mountains will experience the impacts of climate change in different ways. Our scientific understanding of why and how global warming occurs is very good, but predicting future impacts of climate change at regional and local levels is much more difficult.

Everyone fears the effects of global warming. The main effects that are feared to happen are the melting of the glaciers and the drying of the rain forest. The melting of the glaciers would raze the ocean so much that it would put five miles from the shore under water.  Storms would become more frequent. There would be less rainfall in numerous places with the result of the deaths of many crops and the types of storms would include hurricanes and tornadoes of immense power. The extreme changes in the weather and environment would put a lot of species into extinction. The human race would even have trouble surviving.