GREEN HOUSE EFFECT

Thegreenhouse effectis a natural

process that warms the Earth's
surface. When the Sun's energy
reaches the Earth's atmosphere,
some of it is reflected back to space
and the rest is absorbed and reradiated bygreenhouse gases.

HOW DOES IT TAKE PLACE??

 Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere,

which makes the Earth warmer. People are
adding several types of greenhouse gases to
the atmosphere, and each gas's effect on
climate change depends on three main factors:

How much? How long?

How powerful?

produce larger amounts of some greenhouse

gases than others. Carbon dioxide is the

greenhouse gas you hear people talk about the
most. That's because we produce more carbon
dioxide than any other greenhouse gas, and it's
responsible for most of the warming.

Water vapor
(H2O)
Carbon
dioxide (CO2)
Nitrous oxide

Glass lets in light

Glass keeps heat from
escaping
Causes the car to heat up

Deforestation and agriculture

Burning of fossil fuels, gasoline, oil
Burning of wood and coal
CFCs
Population Growth

Global Warming
Endangered
Species
Climate Change

Global Warming
GLOBAL WARMING is a
Definition:
term used to describe
a gradual increase in
the average
temperature of the
Earths atmosphere
and its oceans, a
change that is believed
to be permanently
changing the Earths
climate.

Reasons Burning of fossil fuels (Coal/Crude oil)

Power plants generate electricity
Transportation-----fuels for transports (E.g.
LPG,
kerosene, fuel oil)
Industrial processes (E.g. manufacture of
cement, steel, aluminium)

Reasons Other greenhouse

gases emission

Agriculture
Forestry
Other land uses
Waste management

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Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

Some infrared radiation is trapped

Greenhouse effect

Serious greenhouse effect

Global Warming

How serious the problem

is?...

Increase in greenhouse
gases

Concentration of greenhouse gases

in the atmosphere is highly
increasing by human activities

Leads to the increasing seriousness of

global warming

Global surface
temperatures
increased about 0.6C/century
since the late19th century
increased to 2C/century over the
past 25 years

Increasing temperature
extremes
Regions that have temperatures (13C) warmer than the average:
United States
Most of the Europe

Regions that have temperatures (13C) cooler than the average:

Australia

Sea level rising

rising at an average rate of 1 - 2

mm/year over the past 100 years

Environmental
and Human
Effects

Direct Temperature
Effects
Increase in average temperature
More extreme heat waves during the summer;
Less extreme cold spells during the winter
Harmful to those with heart problems,
asthma, the elderly, the very young and the
homeless

Extreme Events
Extreme Events:
Heat waves; Cold waves; Storms; Floods
and Droughts
Global warming

An increase in the frequency of extreme

events
More event-related deaths, injuries, infectious
diseases, and stress-related disorders

Climate-sensitive
diseases
Increase the risk of some infectious diseases
[particularly that appear in warm areas; are
spread by mosquitoes and other insects]
E.g. Malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever,
encephalitis

Algal blooms occur more frequently as

temperatures warm (particularly in areas with

polluted waters)
Diseases (e.g. cholera) accompanying algal
blooms become more frequent

Air Quality
An increase in the concentration
of ground-level ozone

Damage lung tissue

Harmful for those with asthma

and other chronic lung
diseases

Food supply
Rising temperatures and variable
precipitation
Decrease the production of staple
foods in many of the poorest
regions
Increasing risks of malnutrition

Population
displacement

Rising sea levels

Increase the risk of coastal flooding

(Necessitate population displacement)
More than half of the world's population now lives
within 60km of the sea.
Most vulnerable regions: Nile delta in Egypt, the
Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh, many
small islands, such as the Maldives, the Marshall
Islands and Tuvalu.

Measures on controlling
the problem
Government
* set some laws to limit the amount of
pollutants produced by factories
* develop the skills of using renewable
fuels, e.g. solar energy, wind energy

Measures on controlling
the problem
* encourage the factories to replace fossil
fuels by renewable fuels, which would not
cause environmental pollution
* carry out energy saving scheme
reduce the pollution produced by burning
fossil fuels
* build more plants reduce the pollutants
e.g. CO2

Measures on controlling
the problem
Citizens
* reduce the use of plastic bags as
burning plastic emit CH4
* recycle the resources, e.g. plastic
* reduce the use of sprays as CFCs
would be emitted out

Measures on controlling
the problem
* reduce the use of air-conditioner, which
will emit CFCs

use public transportation instead of

private cars reduce the pollutants

emitted by cars
Afforestration

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