Climate Change

Factors of climate change.

It’s a pity that the world is slowly dying and people are to blame. The increase in temperature affects everything under the sun. Change in the environment, health and food production. General Signs of climate change are obviously are felt such as:

Melting of the glaciers

These glaciers are the most sensitive indicators of climate change. Glaciers world wide have been shown to be shrinking significantly.

Ocean variability

Climate changes can also result from the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere. Ocean processes such as thermohaline circulation  play a key role in redistributing heat by carrying out a very slow and extremely deep movement of water, and the long-term redistribution of heat in the oceans.

Increased carbon dioxide levels are also considered to exacerbate the heating effects of the Greenhouse Effect by reducing the re-radiation of heat from the sun and, therefore, increasing the temperature contained in the atmosphere.

Human activities are also factors of change in the environment such as the following:

  • Dependence on fossil fuels. It was observed that the rise of temperature started during the industrial revolution where people started to use fossil fuels. The human consumption of fossil fuels has elevated the levels of carbon dioxide
  • Cement manufacture also contributes carbon dioxide to the atmosphere when calcium carbonate is heated, and also as a result of burning fossil fuels in this process

Humanity’s largest effect on local climate was land use; irrigation, deforestation, and agriculture. For example, through the redirection of natural water courses or the destruction of animal habitats. Land use may also alter the local albedo by reducing ground cover and, therefore, altering the way sunlight is absorbed or reflected.

As creatures with the highest intelligence we are obliged to protect the earth. It’s our only home and we should not be factors of the destruction of the planet of life. We may could not stop this happening but at lease we could do something to prevent the continuous  increase of the earth’s temperature.

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