Environmental protection

Is a practice of protecting the

natural environment on
individual, organizational or
governmental levels, for the
benefit of both the natural
environment and humans.
Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system observed
since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities,
primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas
levels in Earth’s atmosphere. The term is frequently used interchangeably with
the term climate change, though the latter refers to both human- and naturally
produced warming and the effects it has on our planet. It is most commonly
measured as the average increase in Earth’s global surface temperature.
Since the pre-industrial period, human activities are estimated to have increased
Earth’s global average temperature by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees
Fahrenheit), a number that is currently increasing by 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36
degrees Fahrenheit) per decade. Most of the current warming trend is extremely
likely (greater than 95 percent probability) the result of human activity since the
1950s and is proceeding at an unprecedented rate over decades to millennia.
ONE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCE

MANY EFFECTS
 What are the seven environmental
principles?

• 1.) Nature knows best. ...

• 2.) All forms of life are important. ...
• 3.) Everything is connected to everything else. ...
• 4.) Everything changes. ...
• 5.) Everything must go somewhere. ...
• 6.) Ours is a finite earth. ...
• 7.) Nature is beautiful and we are stewards of God's creation!
 GLOBAL
WARMING:
Effects of Weather

• Increasing temperature is likely to lead to increasing

• precipitation but the effects on storms are less clear.
• Extra tropical storms partly depend on the temperature
• gradient, which is predicted to weaken in the northern
• hemisphere as the polar region warms more than the
• rest of the hemisphere.
 Increase in Disease
DIRECT EFFECTS: HEAT EXTREMES

Elevated temperatures during summer months are

associated with excess morbidity and mortality. The most

common cause of death and most acute illness directly

attributable to heat is heat stroke. Other causes of death
observed to increase following heat waves, include
ischemic
heart disease, diabetes, stroke, respiratory
AGRICULTURAL EFFECTS
• PRODUCTION DECREASE
As many as 63 to 369 million people could be at
risk of hunger in 2060 if global warming is not
controlled. Overall global production would
decline by 1 to 8 percent, this decline will lead to
higher food prices and the increase in the number
of people at risk of hunger.Risk of hunger in 2060
could decline by 12 million people if alternative
methods such as shifting planting times and vast
amounts of irrigation are constructive. Or the death
toll could increase by 119 million depending on the
climate scenario by 2060.