To what extent is Climate Change a result of human activities

This article discusses the impact of human activities on climate change, including deforestation, burning of fossil fuels, and farming. It explores the causes of global warming, greenhouse effect, acid rain, and their negative effects on the environment and living beings.

To what extent is Climate
Change a result of human
activities

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Climate change has been termed as long shifts in weather patterns and temperatures. All
these changes may be natural, like by variations in solar cycle. In recent times, it has been seen
that human activities are the main driver of all these climate change because of burning fossil
fuels such as gas, oil and coal (Franco, Magnani and Maio, 2020). There are various reasons or
causes of climate change such as cutting down forests, burning fossil fuels as well as farming
livestocks are rapidly influencing the earth and climate temperature. This project covers the
changes in climate due to the human activities. Further, it is reviewed what are the main sources
which have the strongest effect on climate change.
Thesis statement : Climate change as a result of human activities like farmimg, deforestation and
the burning of fossil fuels.
MAIN BODY
It has been seen that there is lots of unfavourable changes in climate from past few
decades due to increasing human activities. It includes various activities such as cutting down
forest for industrialisation and urbanisation, burning fuel for household or industrial use as well
as many others. All these activities continuous increasing the global warming, acid rain, green
house effect and many more which harm the environment along with health of animal and
human. The main manipulator of climate change is greenhouse effect. Various gases in the
atmosphere of Earth act as the glass in greenhouse which trap the heat of sun as well as stop it
there form leaking back into space which causes global warming. About 30 greenhouse gasses
generate naturally but the increasing human activities influences the concentrations of few of
them in atmosphere. Some greenhouse gasses are methane, nitro oxide, carbon dioxide and
fluorinated gases (Hanna and Hall, 2020). It has been seen that human produces Huge amount of
Carbon dioxide which contributed largest in global warming. There are also various other gases
which are more harmful than CO2 such as Methane which generate pollution in atmosphere that
leads to poor air quality. Nitrous oxide is also most impactful gas like CO2 which is long lived
greenhouse gas which accumulates in atmosphere over centuries.
The another major cause of climate change is global warming, it has been seen
determined that global average temperature is increasing from 1.1degree Celsius from past
decades due to increase in industrial level. In present time, the global warming is increasing at a

rate 0.2 degree Celsius per decade due to human activities which impacted negatively human
health, animal well-being and natural resources. As the result of this, it increases risk which is
dangerous as well as possibly harmful changes in environment will occur (Ignatov, 2018). There
are multiple causes for rising global warming and green house effects such as people burn gas,
oil and coal for their business along with personal purpose which produces nitrous oxide and
carbon-dioxide. Trees and plants help to improve the climate through absorbing carbon dioxide
from atmosphere. Due to deforestation in which human cut down tree for their personal use
which leads to lost of beneficial effect. As the result of this, Carbon dioxide which stores in trees
is discharged into atmosphere that increases the greenhouse effects. Sheep and Cows produce
huge amount of methane while digesting their food which impacted the Ozone layer.
Human use fertilisers which contain nitrogen and chemical that produce nitrous oxide.
Fluorinated gases which are emitted from products and equipment which use these gases. Such
discharge of gases in environment have very strong global warming effect such as more than
23000 times of CO2 (Causes of climate change, 2021). Human also produces lots of pollution
and consume huge amount of plastic in their daily activities which generate ammonium nitrate
that is harmful for environment. Also, in recent time, every person use their personal vehicle for
transportation which produces air pollution and increase global warming (Kasperson, Hsieh and
Schiller, 2022). Humans are rely on fossil fuels to heat homes appliances, power planes, cars,
and other vehicle as well as run their factories. There are many causes of air pollution which
affect the environment badly such as transportation, wildfires, industrial emission, indoor air
pollution, construction, open burning of waste and demolition. All these activities is performed
by human which leads to increase in imbalance water cycle and acid rain.
The another main cause is acid rain which affect the environment very badly. Acid rain
consists any form of atmospheric condition with acidic components like nitric acid and sulphuric
acid which fall to ground from atmosphere in dry or wet forms. It includes snow, rain, fog. Dust
or hail which is acidic (Kumar, 2018). It contain natural water with low level PH which harm the
people and environment and their life in danger. Acid rain is caused by reaction of harmful
chemicals which begins when elements like nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide are discharged
into air. The main cause of acid rain is auto mobiles, manufacturing industries, power plants, oil
and coal which human use in daily life. It has been determined that it increases every year which
extinct mammals, birds, fish species, animals and many more (Letcher, 2019). All the activities

of human pollute air and it form acid rain which fall into river and harm the life of water animals
as well as slat become more acidic. Acid rain dissolve nutrients on ground or water such as
calcium, magnesium which trees and plants needs to become healthy along with absorb carbon
dioxide. The increasing amount of CO2 is the main cause of global warming which make
environment unhealthy and dynamic (Likens, 2021). It is very important for human to give focus
on such activities and adopt sustainable practices in order to improve the environment condition
to live better lifestyle in future. Also, they have to use ozone friendly products to reduce global
warming and acid rain.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from above presented information that human perform various activities
such as deforestation, industrialization, transportation, burning of fuel which causes climate
change and global warming. Also, there is various other natural gases such as methane, Carbon
dioxide of greenhouse which impacted negatively the environment and put the life of human,
animals and other species in danger.

REFERENCES:
Books and Journals
Franco, A., Magnani, A. and Maio, D., 2020. A multimodal approach for human activity
recognition based on skeleton and RGB data. Pattern Recognition Letters. 131. pp.293-
299.
Hanna, E. and Hall, R.J., 2020. Earth, air, fire and ice: exploring links between human-induced
global warming, polar ice melt and local scale extreme weather. In Science, Faith and the
Climate Crisis (pp. 47-64). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Ignatov, A., 2018. Real-time human activity recognition from accelerometer data using
Convolutional Neural Networks. Applied Soft Computing. 62. pp.915-922.
Kasperson, R.E., Hsieh, W. and Schiller, A., 2022. Vulnerability to global environmental change.
In The social contours of risk (pp. 245-285). Routledge.
Kumar, A., 2018. Global warming, climate change and greenhouse gas mitigation. In Biofuels:
Greenhouse gas mitigation and global warming (pp. 1-16).
Letcher, T.M., 2019. Why do we have global warming?. In Managing global warming (pp. 3-
15). Academic Press.
Likens, G.E., 2021. Acid rain. In Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science (pp. 293-299). Academic
Press.
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Causes of climate change, 2021. [Online]. Available through:
<https://ec.europa.eu/clima/climate-change/causes-climate-change_en>