Just a small dot

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Climate change is one of the most critical issues in our environment today. This is surely one of the great threats that people around the globe are most likely facing by now. With the increasing temperatures in various regions and increasing extremities in weather patterns, inhabitants of the earth could come up with a consensus that this issue ranks on the top as the major threat of our planet.

Global warming and climate change refer to an increase in average global temperatures. Natural phenomena and human activities are believed to be the contributing factors to an increase in average global temperatures. This is caused primarily by increases in “greenhouse” gases.

The term greenhouse is used in combination with the phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect. The energy from the sun drives the earth’s weather and climate, and heats the earth’s surface. The rise in temperature that the Earth experiences is due to certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, etc.) that trap energy from the sun. Without these gases, heat would escape back into space and Earth’s average temperature would be about 60ºF colder.

Many of greenhouse gases are actually life-enabling, for without them, heat would escape back into space and the Earth’s average temperature would be a lot colder. Because of how they warm our world, these gases are referred to as greenhouse gases.

However, if the greenhouse effect becomes stronger, then more heat gets trapped than needed. And this will be the start of the problem. Human activities have caused an imbalance in the natural cycle of the greenhouse effect and related processes. Just take for example sleeping and human health.  An amount of sleep is needed to rejuvenate energy from the body.  More sleep will give a better condition to one’s body. But too much sleeping could also cause harm on the body.

In much the same way, greenhouse gases are essential for our planet; the planet may be able to deal with slightly increased levels of such gases, but too much of it will affect the health of the whole planet.

Climate change is a one big concern that one person alone can surely not handle it. But this will indeed be a small dot if people around the globe will work hand in hand in addressing this problem.