Global Warming
The two terms that find mention in almost all editions of the daily newspaper and magazines are Global warming and Greenhouse effect. Our acquaintance with these words is a long lasting one. Right from the very first Environmental Science book in the primary classes on the perplexing topics of research, Global Warming has indeed become a day to day word rather than being an environmental science jargon. Ever since our first environmental science class, we have been told that the earth is in peril, the temperature has been increasing manifold, its very quality that earned it the title of “The Living Planet” is depleting. Almost every child who has the opportunity to go to school knows about this fact. Almost every person who reads the newspaper is aware of it. Yet the effects of global warming haven’t seen a fall. It is rising and even the rise is a steep one. Perhaps revisiting the very basics of this world phenomenon might give people an incentive to take this issue a little more seriously.
Global warming, as the name suggests is the increase in temperature of …show more content…
THIS IS THE KEY: One of the main reasons why global warming became an international issue and started being researched in depth is that the specialists, experts in climate and from other fields, were very worried that there might be a point, a ‘tipping point’, when the average temperature and its effects start to feedback on themselves, and the problems become uncontrollable and unstoppable. Nobody knows for certain that there is a tipping point, but it seems increasingly likely with every passing year and every new piece of research. Nobody is absolutely certain what temperature change represent such a tipping point, though the general feeling is that once global average temperatures go beyond 2 degrees above the pre-industrial long-term average (some say 1.5, some say 3), the feedbacks which result from all the different effects will be unstoppable for at least a couple of
The two terms that find mention in almost all editions of the daily newspaper and magazines are Global warming and Greenhouse effect. Our acquaintance with these words is a long lasting one. Right from the very first Environmental Science book in the primary classes on the perplexing topics of research, Global Warming has indeed become a day to day word rather than being an environmental science jargon. Ever since our first environmental science class, we have been told that the earth is in peril, the temperature has been increasing manifold, its very quality that earned it the title of “The Living Planet” is depleting. Almost every child who has the opportunity to go to school knows about this fact. Almost every person who reads the newspaper is aware of it. Yet the effects of global warming haven’t seen a fall. It is rising and even the rise is a steep one. Perhaps revisiting the very basics of this world phenomenon might give people an incentive to take this issue a little more seriously.
Global warming, as the name suggests is the increase in temperature of …show more content…
THIS IS THE KEY: One of the main reasons why global warming became an international issue and started being researched in depth is that the specialists, experts in climate and from other fields, were very worried that there might be a point, a ‘tipping point’, when the average temperature and its effects start to feedback on themselves, and the problems become uncontrollable and unstoppable. Nobody knows for certain that there is a tipping point, but it seems increasingly likely with every passing year and every new piece of research. Nobody is absolutely certain what temperature change represent such a tipping point, though the general feeling is that once global average temperatures go beyond 2 degrees above the pre-industrial long-term average (some say 1.5, some say 3), the feedbacks which result from all the different effects will be unstoppable for at least a couple of