Global Warming: Why are We Not Taking it Seriously?

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Global Warming Why are We Not Taking it
Seriously?

• Certain human activities have been causing
  environmental changes over the past few decades
  and these are not good. The pertinent question
  has always been why are people not doing enough
  to reduce the impact on the environment? The UN
  report on the environment says by 2030 global
  temperatures would have risen 2.7 degrees
  Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees centigrade) about the
  average of the pre-industrial era temperatures.

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Global Warming Why are We Not Taking it
Seriously?

• Several volumes of research have been published
  over the past decades that was trying to explain
  how and why we could always miscalculate the risk
  to the environment. But many seem to ignore the
  problem and are not too worried about the distant
  future.

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Global Warming Why are We Not Taking it
Seriously?

• People still believe that a small change in
  temperature would not create drastic effects.
  Many think using air conditioners, coolers and
  air purifiers can keep them comfortable. But the
  truth is that it would have grave consequences
  and the impact is already becoming quite apparent
  for the entire ecosystem and human civilization.

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What are the Major Causes of Global Warming?

• Human influences have been the number one cause
  of global warming. One of the major reasons is
  carbon pollution which is caused by the burning
  of fossil fuels and the pollution created by
  destroying forests.

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What are the Major Causes of Global Warming?

• Different gasses like carbon dioxide, methane,
  soot, and other pollutants are released into the
  atmosphere and act as a blanket that traps the
  heat of the sun and is causing the planet to warm
  up.

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What are the Major Causes of Global Warming?

• Scientific studies have shown that every decade
  since 1960, has been hotter than the previous
  one. This continuous rise in temperatures has
  been altering the earth's climate system, which
  also includes the atmosphere, oceans, land, and
  polar ice, in multiple ways. Even simple room
  thermometers can show the right temperatures and
  over the years, you will realize how every place
  is getting warmer each year.

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Some Major Effects of Global Warming

• The effects of global warming are already being
  felt around the globe over the past few years.
  Some of the effects are mentioned below in
  detail
• Worsening Weather Conditions
• Extinction of Wildlife
• Increasing Death Rates

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Effects of Global Warming Worsening Weather
Conditions

• The high temperatures are amplifying the
  different types of disasters that include heat
  waves, storms, floods, and droughts. The warmer
  weather conditions collect more water vapor,
  retain it, and unleash more water hence,
  changing weather patterns make the wet areas
  become wetter while the dry areas become drier.
  There are extreme conditions of flash flooding
  that are happening at alarming rates across the
  globe.

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Effects of Global Warming Worsening Weather
Conditions

• There are also several cases of landslides,
  wildfires, dust storms, extreme heat events, and
  drought-like conditions that the world is
  currently experiencing. In some places, heavy
  rains are causing overflowing of the rivers and
  lakes which is damaging life and property causing
  serious diseases and also leading to crop
  failure. This also contaminates the clean
  drinking water sources.

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Effects of Global Warming Extinction of Wildlife

• As the environment undergoes rapid changes the
  animals also which inhabit the same earth are
  facing serious problems. Some species are doomed
  to disappear and go extinct since they are unable
  to adapt quickly and survive these drastic
  changes.

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Effects of Global Warming Extinction of Wildlife

• Lack of food and vegetation due to forest fires
  are affecting the poor and helpless animals and
  they have nowhere to go. This has increased the
  dwindling of the animals and they adopt mass
  migration in search of food. That also creates
  other issues and leads to mass extinctions.

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Effects of Global Warming Increasing Death Rates

• Several eminent scientists have claimed that
  global warming is one of the biggest health
  threats of the 21st century. It can impact people
  around the world and especially affect children,
  elderly and low-income communities, and
  minorities in several direct and indirect ways.
  As the temperature increases the incidence of new
  diseases like Covid19 and deaths have risen.

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Effects of Global Warming Increasing Death Rates

• The number of heat-related deaths is also
  increasing rapidly due to sudden spikes in
  temperature even in places where people are not
  used to it earlier.

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Effects of Global Warming Increasing Death Rates

• Health issues like heat exhaustion, heat stroke,
  and cardiovascular and kidney diseases are
  killing more people than before, in several
  countries around the world. Worsening air
  pollution has increased pulmonary diseases in
  many people leading to an increase in deaths.

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