Climate Change

Our world faces many serious issues. Some are intense and sudden where as
some are slow and steadily creeping and may have disastrous effects in the
future. One such issue is of Climate Change, the topic that I am going to say
something today.
Climate change refers to changes in the earth’s climates, at local, regional or
global scales and is most commonly used to describe anthropogenic or human
caused changes. These changes have telling effects on the living beings and the
nature itself. In recent decades, the term ‘climate change’ is most often used
to describe changes in the Earth’s climate driven primarily by human activity,
particularly the burning of fossil fuels and removal of forests, resulting in a
relatively rapid increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the Earth’s
atmosphere.
Global warming is a term often used interchangeably with climate change, as it
is one of the most important measures of global changes. Global warming
refers to the rise in average global temperatures and is linked to significant
impacts on humans, wildlife, and ecosystems around the world. The effects of
climate change are – melting of ice caps and rise in the sea levels, submerging
coastal areas, adverse effects on survival of marine life, lesser oxygen
availability impacting health of the living beings. This has also changed seasons
round the year and has adversely affected the crops and caused disturbing
severe weather conditions like cyclones, severe flooding and warm weather
sicknesses.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen from
hovering around 280 parts per million (ppm) in pre-Industrial time, to 413 ppm
as of early 2020. The developing world is energy deficient. 81% of the energy is
produced by burning fossil fuels. This results into unwanted emissions of
Carbon Dioxide, Soot and other particles that remain suspended in the air and
retain the earth’s heat without allowing it to get dispersed in the higher
atmosphere.
Scientists believe that the 413 ppm as of 2020 needs to be reversed to 350
ppm by end of this century. This reversal is a slow process and unless burning
of fossil fuels is appreciably reduced, a massive effort is launched to increase
forest cover the reversal will not become effective and may result into massive
catastrophes.
It is high time we pass on a safe world to the generations to come and spread
the message of reforestation and lessen the burning of fossil fuels. Let us all
start planting trees and reduce usage of automated transportation.