Global Warming: Is It to Late to Save Our Earth
Global Warming: Isit to late to save our Earth?
Global warming is a major cause of concern for today’s world. The effects of global warming are so dangerous that this issue has to be addressed immediately and the risks have to be minimized, even if they cannot be avoided totally. Global warming can be addressed as the increase in the temperature of the near surface atmosphere and the oceans. This will lead to large amounts of land vanishing into the ocean and the disappearance of many vegetation and wildlife. The effects of global warming can be minimized only through the continuous, committed and well planned efforts of the social community. The steps taken now can rightly minimize the effects and show improvements over the next two decades. Reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases and Industrial waste minimization are just some of the issues that have to be addressed seriously. Environmentalism can cure our plant by fighting against the struggles of pollution, waste generation, wildlife extinctions and other environmental destructions. Global warming occurs mainly due to a concept called “Green House Effect”. There are certain gases like water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane that are called “Greenhouse gases”. These gases trap the energy from the sun, especially the infra-red rays and in turn warm up the earth’s surface. Without these gases, heat would have escaped back into space and the earth would have been colder by around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The warming of the earth’s surface and the oceans is directly proportionate to the concentration of these greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In the last one hundred years, the concentration of these gases has increased tremendously due to large scale burning of fossil fuels and rapid industrialization. This has accelerated global warming, which in the future will lead to the submergence of land masses into the sea, extinction of certain vegetation and wildlife, and the
Global warming is a major cause of concern for today’s world. The effects of global warming are so dangerous that this issue has to be addressed immediately and the risks have to be minimized, even if they cannot be avoided totally. Global warming can be addressed as the increase in the temperature of the near surface atmosphere and the oceans. This will lead to large amounts of land vanishing into the ocean and the disappearance of many vegetation and wildlife. The effects of global warming can be minimized only through the continuous, committed and well planned efforts of the social community. The steps taken now can rightly minimize the effects and show improvements over the next two decades. Reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases and Industrial waste minimization are just some of the issues that have to be addressed seriously. Environmentalism can cure our plant by fighting against the struggles of pollution, waste generation, wildlife extinctions and other environmental destructions. Global warming occurs mainly due to a concept called “Green House Effect”. There are certain gases like water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane that are called “Greenhouse gases”. These gases trap the energy from the sun, especially the infra-red rays and in turn warm up the earth’s surface. Without these gases, heat would have escaped back into space and the earth would have been colder by around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The warming of the earth’s surface and the oceans is directly proportionate to the concentration of these greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In the last one hundred years, the concentration of these gases has increased tremendously due to large scale burning of fossil fuels and rapid industrialization. This has accelerated global warming, which in the future will lead to the submergence of land masses into the sea, extinction of certain vegetation and wildlife, and the
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