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Global Warming

Global warming is a theory put forward by scientists, extreme environmentalists, ecologists, climate specialists and meteorologists who assert that the Earth is rapidly warming up because of human actions. Since the industrial revolution after 1750 the world population increase rapidly, the production of energy and resources is rising dramatically in order to meet the growing demands. As the economic grow increasingly wealthy, the usages of fossil fuels for the energy increase rapidly for wealth creation. Yet, release greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere by using of fossil fuels in automobiles, factories, and coal-burning power plants, burning of soil as well as by loss of agriculture and forests may drive up global temperature

The rise in global temperature may lead to climate change which causing rising sea-levels as dilatation of water and melting ice cliffs and glaciers, changing in weather patterns where intense extreme events , damaging the climate system, ecology and economic, and the spread of diseases . However, the greenhouse effect used to be a naturally-occurring phenomenon that maintains Earth’s average temperature at approximately 60 degrees Fahrenheit (F). Gases like CO2 , methane, water vapour and etc, act as a heat trapping thick blanket (Appendix-A), prevent global average temperatures from dropping to a very cold -18’C (0 F) from its current 60 F or warmer. Without the natural greenhouse effect life would be less possible.

Yet, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report 2007 concluded that the unstably increase of the average global temperature is almost 90% cause by human activities . Between 1906 and 2006 the global average temperature has been risen up to 0.6’C – 0.9’C. Scientists said it would further rise up to 2’C to 6’C by 2100. Indeed, since 1750 the concentration of CO2 has increased 36% while methane has increased nearly 155% (Appendix-B).

Conversely, it maybe a natural cycle of warming as the...