Climate change refers to long-term shift in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural but since the 1800’s and the era of industrial revolutions, humans and their killer-activities have been the main drivers of climate change in that they are immensely releasing large amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere including other activities that depletes the ozone layer in the atmosphere as well as burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) which produces the heat-trapping gasses (GHG) aka Heat-sucking monsters or climate atmospheric monsters. In effect these GHG changes Planet Earth climate by warming it.
Naturally, the atmosphere contains oxygen that protects us from harmful ultraviolet solar radiation. The more carbon dioxide, the more the atmosphere warms due to the effect of the GHG. A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor which is itself a greenhouse gas. This is how the water vapor triples the warming from increasing carbon dioxide and other gasses.
The atmospheric changes is influenced by the earth’s carbon dioxide and oxygen levels as they drive change in atmospheric temperatures, which in turn influence global warming and the threat of rising ocean level which is gradually sinking countries like Kiribati and other countries below sea level.
The potential future effects of global climate change includes frequent wildfires; longer period of drought; increase in vector-born diseases including other health issues; increase in the duration and intensity of tropical storms with unpredictable weather patterns; socio-cultural and economic crises; and posing challenges to survival of wildlife and ecosystem.
As INDIVIDUALS, HOUSEHOLDS, INDUSTRIES AND GOVERNMENTS - We cannot stop global warming overnight but can change our activities in order to slow down the rate and limit the amount of global warming in a sustainable fashion by reducing all the human-led emissions of heat-trapping gasses aka heat-sucking monsters which again ...starts from YOU and I to retard the time bomb.
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