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The main threat of today’s everywhere in the world. We all discuss and talk about this, but how far we can contribute in helping to live a better life.

The causes, effects, and complexities of global warming are important to understand so that we can fight for the health of our planet.

Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to the burning of fossil fuels. As the human population has increased, so has the volume of fossil fuels burned. Fossil fuels include coal, oil, and natural gas, and burning them causes what is known as the ” greenhouse effect” in Earth’s atmosphere.

The greenhouse effect is when the sun’s rays penetrate the atmosphere, but when the heat is reflected off the surface cannot escape back to space. Gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels prevent the heat from leaving the atmosphere.

The greenhóuse gasses are carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane, and nitrous oxide. The excess heat in the atmosphere has caused the average global temperature to rise over time, otherwise known as global warming. 

Global warming has presented another issue called climate change. Sometimes these phrases are used interchangeably, however, they are different. Climate change refers to changes in weather patterns and growing seasons around the world. It also refers to sea level rise caused by the expansion of warmer seas and melting ice sheets and glaciers.

Global warming causes climate change, which poses a serious threat to life on Earth in the forms of widespread flooding and extreme weather. Scientists continue to study global warming and its impact on Earth.

Global temperature and sea levels are rising, and possibly contributing  to larger more devastating storms. This can all contribute to climate change. Climate change is defined as gradual changes in all the interconnected weather elements on our planet over approximately 30 years. The data shows Earth is warming and it’s up to us to make the changes necessary for a healthier planet.

What is climate change?
Climate change refers to significant, long-term changes in the global climate. The global climate is the connected system of sun, earth and oceans, wind, rain and snow, forests and deserts and everything people do too. The climate of a place, say India, can be described as its rainfall, changing temperatures, during the year and so on. But global climate is more than the
” average” of the climates of specific places.

The Climate System
A description of the global climate includes how, for example, the rising temperature of the Pacific feeds typhoons which blow harder, drop more rain and cause more damage, but also shifts global ocean currents that melt American ice which slowly makes sea level rise.

It is this systemic connectedness that makes global climate change so important and so complicated.

What is Global Warming? 
Global warming is the slow increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere because an increased amount of the energy (heat) striking the Earth from the sun 
is being trapped in the atmosphere and not radiated out into space.

The Earth’s atmosphere has always acted like a greenhouse to capture the sun’s heat, ensuring that the Earth has enjoyed temperatures that permitted the emergence of life forms as we know them, including humans. Without our greenhouse, the earth would be very cold.

So much heat is being kept inside the greenhouse earth that the temperature of the earth is going up faster than at any previous time in history.

Temperature changes change the great patterns of wind that bring the monsoons in Asia and rain and snow around the world, making drought and unpredictable weather more common.

The birds near our house chirp very early by 3 am sometimes and we get up thinking it is 4.30 am.

Hoping to see some good days.

-Poornima Sivaraman