Global Climate Change
What is Global Climate Change?
Global climate change, one of the most important global issue nowadays. It is often refer as global warming, however according to Climate Reality Project, it only refers to the increase in average temperature, rather than reflecting the carbon pollution effect in total, which includes change in rain and snow patterns, increasing the risk of intense storms and droughts, increasing acidity of ocean, as well as the increasing temperature. One of the biggest cause of global climate change is due to varieties of human activities. Those human activities increased the greenhouse gases, created the negative greenhouse effects. Originally, greenhouse gasses were produced by living creatures, which cause the greenhouse effect that does not harm the Earth, rather it helps the Earth to keep the average temperature warm enough for living creatures to survive. This article will evaluate to what extent the causes of global climate change are due to human activities, from 3 different human causes to climate change.
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Causes.
Most climate scientists agrees the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the "greenhouse gases" results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Human activities are changing the nature of greenhouse gas emission. Over the last decades the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). This happens because the burning process combines carbon with oxygen in the air which makes CO2. Also other activities such as over farming, industrial pollution, and overgrazing are the causes of increased production of greenhouse gases, but to the lesser extent.
Other human activities such as overgrazing, it result in increase greenhouse gases being produced, since all living creatures produce them. As the increase in economy, more people moves up in the food chain, increases the demand of livestock. To keep up with the demand, forcibly to increase the livestock, and those livestock such as cows produces gases like methane. Over farming on the other hand it result in increase in nitruos oxide, which is produced during the practice of soil cultivation, including the use of commercial and organic fertilisers, fossil fuel combustion, nitric acid production, and burning biomass.
Are all the causes are human-induced?
Since Global Climate Change is caused by the carbon pollution and other forms of greenhouse gas pollution, and the only reason that the pollution of greenhouse gases increased dramatically are human induced. Indeed, all the living creatures produce greenhouse gases, but the issue only became serious because of humans. From looking at the the prediction data, it can tell indicators such as average temperature, and CO2 emission has increased dramatically over the past decades. The Industrial Revolution may be the trigger to greenhouse gas pollution in recent days. To conclude, the main reason of enhanced greenhouse gas pollution are due to human activities, because what humans did to the recent societies have increase the greenhouse gas production, which not only harmed the environment, but to all of us. However, since the greenhouse effects itself exist for a long time, and the improved technology might be able to reduce the amount greenhouse gas pollution being produced in the atmosphere.