GLOBAL WARMING & ITS CONSEQUENCES: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

Author: Dr. Pijush Nandi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/book.001.05

Abstract: Due to rapid industrialization in recent times, there has been an increase in greenhouse gases, which has increased the atmosphere of the earth lower which is called global warming. Global warming has been caused by man-made increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases through the burning of fossil fuels like oil, gas, petrol, kerosene, etc., and deforestation. The global environment is changing with the build-up of various gases in the atmosphere. Carbon oxides, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and many other gases are produced by the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, modern agricultural practices, operations, etc. The increase in the atmospheric concentration of these gases has created a number of problems like the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and depletion of the ozone layer. These changes are very dangerous to human health. The environmental change would mean hotter summers, colder winters, a rise in sea level (melting of ice and glaciers), changes in monsoon pattern, extinction of bio-diversity, devastating floods, etc.
Keyword: Global warming, causes, consequences, solutions

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