GLOBAL WARMING

Introduction
Global warming is a major atmospheric issue all over the world. Our earth’s surface becoming
hot day by day by trapping the sun’s heat and rise in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The bad effects of it increasing day by day and causing major problems to the living of human
being. It has become one of the subjects of big social issues which need social awareness to a
great level. People should know its meaning, causes, effects and solutions to solve it
immediately. People should come forth together and try to solve it in order to save life on the
earth. Global warming or climate change has today become a major threat to the mankind. The
Earth’s temperature is on the rise and there are various reasons for it such as greenhouse gases
emanating from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, burning of fossil fuels or deforestation.

Causes of global warming

Global warming is caused by two reasons, one is natural causes and another is human made
causes. Human beings are doing deforestation to a great extent however trees are main source to
utilize carbon dioxide and perform global carbon cycle to maintain the percentage of this gas in
the atmosphere. Deforestation has almost stopped this positive process of the plants of utilizing
the CO2 which in turn increases the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide and rise in atmospheric
temperature day by day.

Population growth is another main cause of the global warming. Increasing human population on
the earth increases the need of living land and destruction of the forests. Increasing demands of
the number of vehicles by the human beings cause fossil fuels to burn more which ultimately
increases in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The use of fossil fuels by the human beings
in the transport vehicles cause carbon emission which gets collected in the atmosphere, trap heat,
increase atmospheric temperature and cause global warming. Sulphur group gas (release from
the burning of fossil fuels) is also very harmful which contribute around 30 percent rise in the
global warming.

Effect of global warming

Global warming is like a demon of the ancient time which has taken birth in the modern time
after being stronger. It is increasing its negative effects all across the world by slowly increasing
the heat and temperature of the globe. Heat as a heat waves persist for many days by getting
combined with the high relative humidity of the environment. This heat may work as a killer if
the night time temperature does not drop. Increasing temperature has been started feeling by all
of us and it is affecting us by decreasing the length of winter season and increasing the length of
summer season.

Global warming is regularly calling the natural disasters to occur more often many times a year.
Increasing heat and temperature regularly is threatening the human health and safety because it is
creating the fear of drought, flood, natural forest and peat fires, melting glacier, decrease rainfall,
increasing pollution, rise of epidemic diseases, rise of sea-level, more often occurrence of
hurricanes, storm, typhoons when ocean cycles continue, increasing frequency of tropical
cyclones and many more.

Prevention of global warming

We should take the issue of global warming very seriously and try our best to reduce the effects
of it on the environment. We should follow all the rules and regulations planned and
implemented by the government to reach to the aim and continue the possibility of healthy life
on the earth. We should try to live very simple life in order to keep the atmospheric temperature
up to normal so that all the natural cycles may go as usual without any negative effects. We
should try to take bath with warm or cold water, wash clothes with cold water instead of hot
water and lessens our need of personal vehicles to reduce the carbon dioxide gas emissions.

We should not involve in the deforestation and inform the authority immediately after seeing
another one involved. We should promote the habit of re-plantation in the surrounding area in
order to get fresh air as well as reduces the amount of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere.

Conclusion
We can save Planet Earth, only by tackling the problem of global warming. Let’s resolve to
reduce the production of CO2. The way to do it is to less use of oil, coal and gas. Rather we
should embrace renewable energy. Let us reduce our dependence on electricity, as its production
releases a huge amount of CO2 simultaneously. So, less use of energy and electricity can help us
in dealing with the problem of global warming. We have to avoid producing a great amount of
CO2, Sulphur, CFCs, and Methane gases as they are harmful to the environment. A massive tree
plantation drive should be undertaken as trees soak up CO2 and at the same time trees generate
more oxygen.

There is also the need for going for plant-derived plastics, biodiesel, wind power and solar
power. At individual levels, people should prefer buying cars with the best fuel economy, and
should not unnecessarily use them.

Article By
VISHAL KUMAR
Lecturer of Civil Engineering Department
Madhav university abu road rajasthan