For the most part, climate change involves our Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is composed of a variety of different gases, including nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and ozone. There is a layer of ozone that circles the globe, appropriately named the “ozone layer”. One of the reasons that life is able to exist on Earth is because of this layer in the atmosphere. The planet remains at a survivable temperature because energy that comes from the Sun is reflected off of Earth’s surface and goes back into space. However, some of it is absorbed by greenhouse gases that are trapped under the ozone layer. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and man-made substances. This absorption of energy is called the greenhouse effect.
The issue that the world now faces with climate change is an enhanced greenhouse effect. Rising levels of the aforementioned greenhouse gases are having a harmful effect on the environment. Too much energy from the sun is being absorbed and not enough is being reflected; this causes more heat radiation and therefore a rising global temperature.
Causes of climate change include deforestation, overusage of plastic, usage and extraction of fossil fuels, increased livestock farming, and the aforementioned enhanced greenhouse effect. All of these human practices are the reason that the world continues to warm.
The issue that the world now faces with climate change is an enhanced greenhouse effect. Rising levels of the aforementioned greenhouse gases are having a harmful effect on the environment. Too much energy from the sun is being absorbed and not enough is being reflected; this causes more heat radiation and therefore a rising global temperature.
Causes of climate change include deforestation, overusage of plastic, usage and extraction of fossil fuels, increased livestock farming, and the aforementioned enhanced greenhouse effect. All of these human practices are the reason that the world continues to warm.