Climate Change

Climate change is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land masses. Greenhouse gases are heat trapping gases which causes the rapid warming of the Earth. This is due to human activities such as burning of fossil fuels, plastics, using perfumes and many more.  For this scenario, more and more greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere and acts like thickening blanket which trap heat from the Sun provided to the Earth, known as the process of greenhouse effect.

The earth has warmed and cooled many times since its formation about 4.6 billion years ago. A climate change is also due to many natural factors like massive volcanic eruptions, which increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These occurrences threaten the earth for the next 50 years. As years passed by, global temperature increases. If this phenomenon continues, all of us will be affected. Study shows that ice of the North Pole and South Pole is melting because of too much heat entering into the earth’s surface. Researchers predicted that after 50 years, if the temperature continues to rise, polar ice and glaciers will be totally melted and would be erased on the map of the world. This will cause the expansion of ocean volumes and sea level which will flood some coastal regions and even entire islands including the Philippines. Too much heat will occur and different diseases would come out such as heat strokes and skin diseases that may possible to a lead of cancerous disease.

Responding to the challenge of controlling global warming will require fundamental changes in transportation, health and industry. The possible solution to prevent global warming is to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases like reducing the consumption of fossil fuels. The other is through carbon capture. Through these, we can save our planet from danger.