Climate Change

 CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change is a significant or abnormal difference in the average weather pattern like Unpredictable seasons, rising sea levels and erratic rainfall, which contribute to floods, droughts and crop failures.

Climate changes will, and already are, affecting every aspect of the hydrologic cycle. The world is getting hotter, resulting in rising sea levels, more extreme weather like hurricanes, droughts, and floods, as well as other risks to the global climate like the irreversible collapsing of ice sheets.

• Global warming is the major cause of climate change. 
• The pandemic , the fires and accelerating climate change are a stark reminder that our world is out of balance.
• We have caused a climate emergency that gravely threatens nature and life itself, including our own.
• Around 50% of the planet's wild forests are gone. If the trend continues, we will only have 10% left by 2030.
• 800 million people eleven percent of the world's population is currently vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, heat waves and extreme weather events.

Recent project which will result as an effect of climate change :

  ["China continues to build coal-fired power plants at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined. In 2020, China brought 38.4 gigawatts of new coal-fired power into operation, more than three times what was brought on line everywhere else."]

Now, China is constructing four huge dam over the India’s Brahmaputra river which will cause severe floods at any time in Assam. People living near the Brahmaputra and specially Majuli Island are already lost their livelihoods and homes due to frequent floods. World must stop this.

The role of human activity:

• The well-documented trend of increasing of CO2 in the atmosphere is related to exponential increases in human population, massive land cover changes and the burning of fossil fuels. 

• The concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased dramatically over the last 150 years, from a pre-industrial era.

• Concentration of approximately 280 parts per million (ppm) to more than 410 ppm currently.

• It is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.

• Increasingly intensive agriculture – which emits greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide.

• Deforestation – because living trees absorb and store carbon dioxide.

How climate change affects humans and our environment:

• More rain increases mold, fungi, and indoor air pollutants.

• Loss of biodiversity due to limited adaptability and adaptability speed of flora and fauna.  

• More heat can mean longer allergy seasons and more respiratory disease.

• Ocean acidification due to increased HCO3 concentrations in the water as a consequence of increased CO₂ concentrations.

• An increase in hunger and water crises, especially in developing countries.

• An average of 26 million people flee their homes every year due to climate-related disasters.

The case studies in the report are composed of three climate adaptation and mitigation initiatives –

• (i) Community-led climate adaptation like using salt-tolerant rice for areas with high-salinity, use of mangroves for coastal protection and capture carbon, and use of solar energy.  
• (ii) GHG Mitigation in the Industry. Included here is a cement manufacturing, and an IT company that sought to reduce its energy consumption and emissions.
• (iii) Innovative rainwater harvesting system that can supplement the much-needed water resource by capturing and storing surface runoffs back into their borewells.

There will be no peace in the world without climate justice.

 Want clean air to breathe.

 Want clean water to drink.

 Want clean planet to live.

SAVE THE CLIMATE ! 

SAVE THE EARTH !

-By Anshika Agarwal