The Burning Planet - Page 3

Manu ...very educative and informative post !👏

We are all responsible for releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels for transportation (driving and flying) and home energy (electricity, heating, and cooling). This leads to global warming, which is destroying Earth's biodiversity and native ecosystems.

Global warming is affecting the nature's balance and has a huge impact on life, like continued heat waves, and sudden occurrence of storms and floods. The greenhouse effect is a process by which the greenhouse gases absorb thermal radiation; these are then reradiated in all directions. But when some of these radiations come back to the surface and lower atmosphere, it causes increase in the average surface temperature leading to global warming.

There is strong evidence that emissions of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were the major cause of the recent abnormal warming. Many problems could result from global warming. One of the biggest problems is rising sea level.

In conclusion, if we make small changes now in the way we live, we can avoid huge changes in the future. Scientists, governments and individuals must work together to overcome this threat.

Solutions--

1. Reduce your use of fossil fuels

2. Protect native forests as "carbon store houses

3. Help plant native trees in urban and deforested areas

Benefits of planting native trees

1. They help stop global warming by reducing greenhouse gases

2. They reduce soil erosion and water pollution

3. They provide habitat for native wildlife (including songbirds)

4. They improve human health by producing oxygen and improving air quality

5. They reduce home energy needs by providing shade in summer and a windbreak in winter

Human activity since the Industrial Revolution has increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere .Over the last three decades of the 20th century, gross domestic product per capita and population growth were the main drivers of increases in greenhouse gas emissions.CO₂ emissions are continuing to rise due to the burning of fossil fuels and land-use change .