Extent to Which Human Activities Contribute to Climate Change

This essay examines the impact of human activities on climate change, including the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and overuse of natural resources. The essay discusses the causes and effects of global warming, pollution, and other environmental disasters, and explores the ways in which human actions can be controlled to prevent further damage to the planet. The essay also highlights the role of industrialization, urbanization, and other factors in contributing to climate change.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Climate refers to the weather pattern in a specific region for 30 years on an average.
Weather is atmospheric conditions in short term while climate change refer to long term changes.
Climate change is long term shifting of temperatures and weather patterns. Such shifting can be
in temperature, wind pressure or sustained winds over decades or even longer, precipitation, etc.
Sea levels are raising and lands are drying, even the oceans are becoming warmer. The crops,
wildlife and the sources of fresh water are being affected by intense drought. The planet's
diversified life is in danger because of changing climate. There is a great threat of climate
changes to the places, species and peoples livelihood. Climate change is the hands behind these
risky events that are happening or going to happen in the world (Casaló and Escario, 2018).
Reasons for climate change can be some natural external forces or there can be humans included.
However, the natural forces can not be managed but the damage humans are causing, it can be
controlled. This essay will cover the extent to which the human activities contribute to the
changes in the climate.
MAIN BODY
The climate and the earth's temperature is frequently being influenced because of the
burning of the fossil fuels, deforestation i.e. denudation of the forests & the over usage of natural
resources. All these human activities are adding a vast amount of greenhouse gases that are
naturally present in the atmosphere. It is also very much clear that the activities performed by the
humans are the leading reasons behind the emergence in the situation of the climate change. If
any collective changes are not made, the mankind will soon be facing an environmental disaster.
Due to an increase in the temperature of the world, the level of the pollution in the planet
has seen a massive change in the climate of the earth. The polar ice caps are in the verge of
melting along with the natural environmental disasters that are happening all around the world,
has all led to the forceful change in the earth. The shifting pattern of the weather has also led to
the numerous changes in the world's overall situation (Giorgi, 2019).
Most of the greenhouse gases emerge naturally, but few human activities are accelerative
in nature. Some of them are the carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other fluorinated
gases. The actions of the human like burning of the coal, oil and gaseous products such as the
carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, stinging down of forests, etc. are also a factor which is

accelerating the amount of carbon dioxide as the trees help in absorbing the CO2. When the trees
are cut down, the carbon stocked in the trees is emitted in the ambiance increasing the level of
CO2, causing imbalance in CO2 and O2 concentration in air. Because of pastoral activities done
by humans, gas methane emits. That is because of the cows and sheep are producing large
quantity of methane during digestion of the food.
The increase in heat trapping gases is the main reason for the raise in global temperature,
even more than other human activities. Many burning processes done by humans supports CO2
increase and CO2 absorbs heat resulting increase in air, sea and land temperature. The fossil fuel
being used is the source through which the vehicles operating in the roads, air and water get their
respective power from.
Constructing concrete jungle has many drawbacks on its own. Firstly, it is a big reason
behind deforestation causing increase in CO2 and decrease in O2. It is one of the major helper of
the global warming. The disruptive activities of the human each year for the commercial
purposes is another reason behind the cause. Production of cements for construction also adds up
to be a crucial element responsible for the climate change resulting in the overall estimation of
2% of the entire emission of the carbon dioxide in the environment.
Some gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere block heat from escaping, this cause
increase in temperature of the planet earth which is causing variations in climate. The main
factor for climate change is human activities done in order to cause air pollution.
Chlorofluorocarbons is also one of the heat trapping gases. Humans have a very big hand in
production of these poisonous gases. These gases are used by humans in industrial appliances
and gadgets like refrigerators. They are the reasons behind the intense impacts such as the
depletion of the ozone layer and trapping of the heat in the environment. (Khan and et. al.,
2022).
Industrialization and industrial revolutions accounts to the better conditions in terms of
the living standards and ease in hands but there are always some negative impacts of every
happening. These negative impacts are interrelated with the unfavourable effects on the
environment which has led to climatic change. With modern introductions of technologies,
human resources in the industries have been replaced with machinery. All of these machineries
uses different hazardous energies releasing through the industries. The activities involved in the
Manufacturing department make extensive utilization of the power and other natural resources.

These activities either are directly or indirectly responsible for the emissions through electrical or
usage of fuel. For example, the production of chemicals, iron or steel are extreme energy
intensifier.
The heat waves from the environment in extreme amount causes major heat related health
problems & injuries. The high atmospheric property is massively increasing the water
evaporation rate for the relative water bodies. The availability of the fresh water bodies is again
one of the biggest problem humans are facing. Its level is constantly declining at a faster rate in
the world which definitely is not a good news for the life on the planet as it is a vital resource of
life on this planet (Mirzaei and et. al., 2020).
Urbanisation is something affecting climate change indirectly. People are constantly migrating to
the urban localities majorly because of earning, education or living better lifestyle. This
overcrowding in cities is increasing pollution, population and poor sanitization. Increasing
exploitation of the resources and industrialisation is promoting the overutilisation of the fossil
fuels which results in the problem of the global warming and a massive change in the climatic
conditions.
The change in climate due to human activities is massive, temperature change in the
ocean, diminution of the ice sheets, receding glaciers, decrease in the snow cover, level being
risen in the sea, declination in the arctic sea ice, immoderate weather events, acidification of the
oceans and many more is because of the mankind's deeds (Wang and et. al., 2019). This harm to
the planet and its climate should be controlled because whether there are both natural and human
factors affecting the climate changes, there is a major role of humans in the exploitation of
natural atmosphere more than the natural factors.
CONCLUSION
Human activities are responsible for the maximum percentage of the climate change, that
has become the cause for the severe damage to the planet and its flora and fauna, in recent years.
The global warming indicators have increased the temperature, changes in the humid conditions
along with a rise in the level of the sea, resulting in the warming of the land at a faster pace than
before due to the emissions from the fossils ultimately causing a change in the climatic
conditions. The humans have left their print on the environment because of the extensive
industrial activities being carried out, also, the emerging civilisations can be noticed in the water
as well. Higher temperature is causing a danger to the lives in the planet. The important

assortments of the flora and fauna have fallen under the category of being endangered. As all of
these problematic activities are caused by humans, they are the only one who can prevent such
acts from happening. Only the mankind can take stand for itself in order to save its species from
ending.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Casaló, L.V. and Escario, J.J., 2018. Heterogeneity in the association between environmental
attitudes and pro-environmental behavior: A multilevel regression approach. Journal of
Cleaner Production, 175, pp.155-163.
Giorgi, F., 2019. Thirty years of regional climate modeling: where are we and where are we
going next?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(11), pp.5696-5723.
Khan, I., and et. al., 2022. Linking energy transitions, energy consumption, and environmental
sustainability in OECD countries. Gondwana Research, 103, pp.445-457.
Mirzaei, M., and et. al., 2020. Trans-boundary land cover changes and its influences on water
crisis: Case study of the Aras River. Applied Geography, 124, p.102323.
Wang, C., and et. al., 2019. Tracing the spatial variation and value change of ecosystem services
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