Humans impacts on global climate change continues to accumulate. Data indicated that earth’s surface temperature is rising. This increase can be attributed, in part, to human-caused increasing in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. It is becoming apparent that these climate changes are negatively affecting physical and biological systems worldwide. Carbon dioxide and other pollutants result from burning of coal to produce electricity. Electricity generated at power plants is carried by power lines to users, sometimes hundreds of miles away.
The burning of gasoline by automobiles releases carbon dioxide and other types of air pollution that contribute to global climate change. Pollution caused by humans is usually caused in big and major cities. Measurements of humans on the atmosphere have been recorded for 140 years
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or more. Scientist can estimate the measurements to predict what the global warming rate will be in the near future. Humans let out a lot of carbon monoxide with pollutes the atmosphere, and in major cities where the are a lot of cars, it cause pollution to be everywhere in that city.
Human activities contribute to climate change by causing changes in the earth’s atmosphere in the amounts of greenhouse gases, aerosols, and cloudiness.
Good changes to earth’s system to global climate change temperature depends on the balancing act between energy entering and leaving the planet's system. When incoming energy from the sun is absorbed by earth’s system, the earth can get warm. When suns energy is reflecting back into space, earth avoids warming, when energy is released back into space, earth cools down. Many factors both natural and human impacts can cause changes in earth’s energy as in chan...
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...arming, when energy is released back into space, earth cools down. Many factors both natural and human impacts can cause changes in earth’s energy as in changes in greenhouse gases affect, variations in the suns energy, changes in the reflectivity of earth’s atmosphere and surface. Humans impacts on global climate change continues to accumulate. Data indicated that earth’s surface temperature is rising. This increase can be attributed, in part, to human-caused increasing in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Humans impacts on global climate change continues to accumulate.
Data indicated that earth’s surface temperature is rising. This increase can be attributed, in part, to human-caused increasing in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. It is becoming apparent that these climate changes are negatively affecting physical and biological systems worldwide.
When the sun heats the Earth gases are released as well as water vapor. They go into the atmosphere and regulate the temperature. This is known as global warming or the greenhouse effect. Many of the environmental complications derive from the political and social involvement. The climate was not the only cause, but we had humans played a role on what had been occurring to the world. Earth has many different atmospheric layers that are influenced by the greenhouse gases. “Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have now increased nearly 30 percent since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; methane levels have more than doubled; and nitrous oxide concentrations have risen by about 15 percent” (Fagan 209). The increase of these gases also enhanced the trapping of the heat. With more heat being trapped this lead to many coastlines to flood due to the melting of snow and ice. The increase of dangerous weather actions will pose as a threat also. These changes in the environment would eventually lead to political and social change of the people Overpopulation in certain areas and industry formation influence the greenhouse effect. We as a whole are destroying the place we live, the natural world. Although there are ways to prevent and reduce global warming, we cannot stop the natural occurrence of future climate. Climate is not the only factor, each individual that as
Industrial Revolution, people have released more of these gases into the atmosphere, thickening the blanketing layer. This
Mankind’s industrialization of the world has caused a drastic increase in temperature. This rise in temperature is caused by solar radiation remaining in our atmosphere because of gases produced by humans through the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities. These gases block the radiation from escaping into space therefore warming our planet. The result is raising of ocean levels, extinction of species and threatening of children’s health because of disease and less freshwater to drink. While many view climate change to be a more natural occurrence than others do, scientists have proven the average temperature rise of the Earth between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the last 100 years.
energy it absorbed. Some of the released energy will go back to the earth and
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Air pollution is caused by many things such as car fumes, burning of fossil fuels,
Car pollutants cause immediate and long-term effects on the environment. Car exhausts emit a wide range of gases and solid matter, causing global warming, acid rain, and harming the environment and human health. Engine noise and fuel spills also cause pollution. Cars, trucks and other forms of transportation are the single largest contributor to air pollution in the United States, but car owners can reduce their vehicle's effects on the environment. Car pollution is one of the major causes of global warming. Cars and trucks emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which contribute one-fifth of the United States' total global warming pollution. Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, which causes worldwide temperatures to rise.
From the 1900’s, the Industrial Revolution saw the large-scale use of fossil fuels for industrial activities. Therefore, they created many jobs for the people. And many people moved from rural areas to cities, making the excessive cutting down of trees so as to create an area for settlement and area of construction of industries. Natural resources are being used extensively for construction, industries, transport, and consumption. All this has contributed to the rises of greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. Where as the industries operated by man and the vehicles used imply the use of fossil fuels. And the burning of fossil fuels causes the production of these harmful gases that lead to the depletion of the ozone layer. As the ozone layer is depleted the increase of global temperature known as global warming.
Nearly all climate scientists can agree, that the most common cause of the current global warming trend, is to be blamed on the burning of fossil fuels, which changes the natural greenhouse of our earth. The usual process in which heat is absorbed by the earth, is when sunlight passes through its atmosphere
The Earth captures around 342 W/m2 of energy from the sun. This energy is in the form of solar radiation, which the atmosphere reflects about 77 W/m2 and will absorb around 68 W/m2 of solar radiation annually. Therefore, the Earth’s surface is receiving, on average, about 197 W/m2 of solar radiation annually. This amount of energy received is roughly more than 10,000 times the amount of all energy humans consume per year. This energy can be used to produce electricity or heat. This energy source is not being used to it’s potential considering how much effort would come into effect to store and transport this energy.
Global warming is an increase in the earth's temperature due to fossil fuels, industry, and agricultural processes caused by human, natural, and other gas emissions. This results in an increased evacuation of greenhouse gases. “Short-wave solar radiation sinks into the Earth's atmosphere and warms its surface while long-wave infrared radiation emitted by earth's surface is absorbed, and then re-emitted by trace gases.” (2)
Water pollution is also a major thing in the world because almost 60% of it is fishes. It occurs due to several factors; the industrial waste dumped into the rivers and other water body’s cause am imbalance in the water leading to its severe contamination and deaths. And the infamous Global warming is the emission of greenhouse gases particularly CO2 is leading to global warming.
earth?s atmosphere starts to warm, which leads to global warming. Global warming can lead to
Automobiles release the unburnt carbon monoxide due to which ultraviolet rays got a way to enter into an atmosphere.
Global Warming One of the most substantial problems in the world today is global warming. This gradual warming of the earth is in occurrence at an extremely slow rate but it is happening. Many scientists believe that as human’s work and release greenhouse gases into the earth’s atmosphere, it can become dangerous for the long lasting life of humans and our environment. “Unless we take immediate action, the impacts of global warming will continue to intensify, grow ever more costly and damaging, and increasingly affect the entire planet - including you, your community, and your family” (“Global Warming Impacts”).