Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and Solutions

This presentation discusses the gradual temperature increment of the earth’s atmosphere, reasons for global warming, effects on the environment and people, involvement of economics and personal lifestyle, steps taken by individuals, communities, and governments to address global warming, and suggestions for addressing global warming in a better way. References are also provided.

Environmental
Issues GLOBAL WARMING

What is Global Warming?
 Gradual temperature increment of the earth’s atmosphere.
 Rise of temperature in the earth’s climate system.
 Average temperature of the lands are increasing by 0.25 degree
centigrade per decade ("Chapter 3: Observations: Surface and
Atmospheric Climate Change - AR4 WGI", 2018).
 Average temperature of the oceans are increasing by 0.13
degree centigrade per decade ("Chapter 3: Observations: Surface
and Atmospheric Climate Change - AR4 WGI", 2018).

Reasons of Global Warming:
 Greenhouses Gases (Trenberth et al., 2014).
 Aerosols.
 Solar Activity (Trenberth et al., 2014).
 Human Created Issues.

Effects of Global Warming on
Environment and Peoples:
 Rise of earth’s normal temperature (Myers et al., 2013).
 Changes in the Earth’s Climate.
 Rise of Sea levels.
 Impacts the health of the humans.
 Impacts the humans by affecting the food supply chain.

Involvement of the Economics and
Personal Lifestyle in Global Warming:
 Economics helps Government to build policy for responding to
the Global Warming (Drake, 2014).
 Specific lifestyle of humans are causing Global Warming.
 Specific lifestyle of humans are helping to reduce Global
Warming.

Steps taken by Individuals,
Communities and Governments to
address the Global Warming:
 Individuals not having additional child and tying to live car free.
 Communities are saving energy, considering renewable energy
sources and protecting the trees where as possible (Smith &
Joffe, 2013).
 Government implementing biofuels and electric vehicle for public
transport.
 Government promoting activities such as planting new trees.
 Industrial pollution is controlled by the Government.

Opinion on addressing the Global
Warming:
 Individuals are performing a good job to fight against the Global
Warming.
 Communities are sacrificing their comfort zone to address the
Global Warming.
 Governments has taken good steps for reducing the green house
gases to mitigate the Global Warming.

Suggestions for addressing the
Global Warming in a better way:
 Individuals can limit the usage of refrigeration system and the
usage of the personal vehicles.
 Communities can reduce the amount of wastage and recycle the
wastage for a green economy.
 Government can promote green energy, support the agricultural
produces and can restore key ecosystem.
 Government can ban old vehicles which have crossed the
lifespan.

References:
 Chapter 3: Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change - AR4
WGI. (2018). Retrieved from https://
archive.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch3.html
 Trenberth, K. E., Dai, A., Van Der Schrier, G., Jones, P. D., Barichivich, J.,
Briffa, K. R., & Sheffield, J. (2014). Global warming and changes in
drought. Nature Climate Change, 4(1), 17.
 Myers, T. A., Maibach, E. W., Roser-Renouf, C., Akerlof, K., & Leiserowitz, A.
A. (2013). The relationship between personal experience and belief in the
reality of global warming. Nature Climate Change, 3(4), 343.
 Drake, F. (2014). Global warming: the science of climate change. Routledge.
 Smith, N., & Joffe, H. (2013). How the public engages with global warming:
A social representations approach. Public Understanding of Science, 22(1),
16-32.