It sounds complicated, but it is easy to start. Governments around the world impose strict emission quotas on their industries, as China did in 2017.Īs individuals, we can sufficiently reduce our carbon footprint if we choose to live green. Non-governmental organizations, like Greenpeace or the UN, constantly work on their missions that concern improving the environment. But we have to take action if we want to save our own natural habitat at the very least. No doubt, boosting global warming is much easier than taking even a slight attempt to curb it. A rapid climate change is the direct cause of the most destructive recent natural catastrophes. As the ocean warms up, more powerful storms will come, and natural disasters will intensify. Unfortunately, there is more harm to be done. The rise of sea levels caused by melting glaciers has already pushed out the populations of coastal species. Polar bears, frogs, and corals are hit the hardest by global warming according to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( 7 Species Hit Hard by Climate Change-Including One That’s Already Extinct). Hundreds of species are losing their habitats because ice caps are shrinking and the water in the ocean has become too warm for them. Rising temperatures make our living uncomfortable, but our everyday comfort is not the biggest problem. So, we actively burn fossil fuels, and thus create global warming. The abundance of transport-ships, trains, and planes-made even such a gross consumer of fossil fuels as the power economy the second biggest CO2 polluter. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the greatest part of coal and oil consumption goes to transportation, the work of power plants, industrial facilities, single households, and agricultural businesses ( Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions). Scientists also operate with other theories of global warming and why it emerged, but the impact of new industries remains undeniable.īurning fossil fuels is a tremendous part of industrial and domestic human activities, which results in climate change. This fact builds the direct link between human activities and the carbon dioxide released. It was the one that brought most of the technological advancements to industries. The amount of CO2 has increased by more than one-third since the Second Industrial Revolution of 1880. Industries are the first to blame for starting global warming. But what exactly do we do to release that much greenhouse gas? All of them create a shield that keeps heat close to Earth and does not let it out into space. These are the notorious carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and even water vapor. However, a great amount of heat is trapped in the atmosphere due to greenhouse gases. Sunlight always passes to the surface of our planet, and a certain part of it is reflected back to space. So, how is this happening? By emitting a tremendous amount of greenhouse gas every day. Human activity is the most popular explanation to the phenomenon of global warming. All of that change happened over some 60 years.Ĭlimate is changing at an unprecedented speed now, and few scientists dare deny that. From this time on, the temperature on the planet rose, oceans warmed, glaciers shrunk, and areas covered with snow visibly decreased.
The level of carbon dioxide emissions became twice as large as it had been at any peak of natural heating-cooling cycles recorded before the 1950s ( Climate change: How do we know?). The average temperature on our planet has risen to about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit since then. The 1950s became the tipping point for environmental scientists. But things have changed dramatically over the last century, and today we observe that warming has accelerated far beyond the limit. Climates never stay the same, and this has been the case for hundreds of thousands of years.
In some respect, we can say that a kind of global warming pushed the Ice Age to its extinction. According to NASA, Earth’s orbit fluctuates from time to time, and such a change varies the amount of solar radiation our planet receives ( Climate change: How do we know?). Earth has been heating and cooling for centuries, and this fact hardly bothers climatologists.
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