Global Warming, Climate Change and Greenhouse Effect - A Storm in a Teacup

The hustle and bustle about climate change is getting louder and louder with the passing of every single month, probably day. The rate at which the planet earth is experiencing climate change is truly making things really horrible. Specifically, the level of carbon dioxide that is increasing in the atmosphere is really a threatening situation. 

 

The pace at which the ice bergs are melting is making the sea levels rising, and that is why, the weather patterns have been changing at such a fast rate thus making the sea levels is higher. Moreover, we can also experience water deficiency and probably face more hazardous disasters such as typhoons, cyclones and hurricanes at a faster rate. Moreover, the horrible environmental factors have also created so many issues and thus, deserts may also expand and will ultimately decrease the amount being grown on the soil. 

Moreover, some of the scientists are also claiming that the earth is suffering due to the global warming and that is why, precautionary measures should be adopted as far as making earth a safest place. Innumerable scientists across the globe are working hard to find out the scientific aspects of climate change and also working on finding an appropriate solution to this problem. 

If we have a look at the natural climatic cycles, we will be amazed to see that abrupt changes are taking place and which is not a normal thing at all. Something that is really scary is the burning fossil fuels that are emitting greenhouse gases at a hazardous level. That is why, we can say that everything i.e., Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, and above all Climate Change are happening at a very fast pace.

Moreover, the rate at which the climate change is happening compels us to shift our policies in every aspect according to the change and that is the only way, we can save our planets from various hazards.

Adverse Effects Of Acid Rain

Acid rain is subsequent of atmospheric pollution caused by a human being. Acidic rain is comprised of droplets containing the poisonous or acidic composition taken from the atmosphere. What actually happens is that sodium and nitrogen emitted from different sources into the environment get to interact with the rain droplets to make it acidic. The process of acidic deposition in the air takes place in two manners wet acid deposition and the dry acidic deposition.

Wet Acid deposition:

N wet decomposition, the precipitation in the form of snow or rain removes the acid from the atmosphere into the surface of Earth. This is caused due to deposition of acidic material into the drops of rain and snow. 

Dry Acid deposition:

In a dry deposition, the toxin in the absence of precipitation particles sticks to the ground through the smoke and dust particles.

PH value of acid rain:

The acidity in the rain is measured by the PH scale .0 is the most acidic point in and the 14 level is the most alkaline point in measuring the acidic. While PH level 7 is the neutral acidic level meaning that it is neither alkaline nor acidic. Rainwater is always naturally acidic to some extent due to the presence of oxides in the atmosphere. The PH value of rain in an unpolluted ecosystem is somehow in between 5 to 6 but when the air of an ecosystem gets contaminated with excess oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, its PH value increases to the level 4 and often in more polluted areas it is recorded to be having the PH value of 2 and it Is the most acidic rain having adverse effects on the atmosphere.

History of acidic rain:

The gases responsible for the acid rain is mostly emitted from the natural resources like volcanoes but is also emitted by the human combustion of fossil fuels in industries and vehicles. Effects and deposition of acid in the rain was under consideration of the scientist since the 18th century but was not able to gain the profound attention of the world. The issue gained the mass attention of the public in late1970when the New York Times published their report dealing with the issues faced in the forest in New Hampshire.

Effects of acidic rain:

Acid rain has many adverse effects on the life of habitat in an ecosystem it has adverse effects on the earth aquatic life, plantation on the earth and also on the animals and the human being living on.

Effects on forest:

Acidic rain causes the stunt of growth in plants and trees. It washes away all the essential nutrients of the plants and soil that make them grow well. Besides, the chemicals in the rain react with the nutrients in the plant cell causing different diseases in the plants also the chemical deposits in them make them the vulnerable prey of plants enemy insects. .forestall around the world are affected by the acid rain but mostly these effects can be seen in the forests of European countries. Almost 30% of forests in Switzerland are destroyed by the acidic rain.

Effects on marine life:

The acidic water when inserting the aquatic body causes to increase the aluminum concentration in the water. Besides, it lowers the PH value of the water, which subsequently results in the death of fishes. Snails mussels, shrimps, minnows, salmon, roach are widely affected by the contamination of the acidic rainwater into the rivers, lakes and seas. it also destroys the plankton’s life in the sea.

Effects on human being:

The acidic rain appears like normal rain. It does not have direct effects on the human body when interacted with it during the walk in the rain. The pollutants in the rain form the nitrate and sulfate which when inhaled deep causes many respiratory and lungs disorders besides the toxic pollutant in the rain are also responsible for causing the diseases of heart .it also have been reported in some places to cause some allergic effects on the skin of human beings.

Effects Of Global Warming On Human Health

Global warming is a globally recognized issue that has risen due to the emission of greenhouse gasses from man-made resources.  The rise in the earth’s temperature is continuous and it is expected to be more in the future coming years. The increasing global warming is affecting every life form on the Earth.  Due to global warming rivers are drying, waste glaciers are melting, green land is turning into barren lands, and dead seas or hypoxic seas are becoming common.  Due to climatic change there is no doubt some positive aspects seen on the earth like less intense winter in some local areas, besides there has become positive agricultural production seen in some cold areas where there was no food and crop production due to intense winter, but it, on the other hand, is rendering great loss to the health of human being and its food cultivation  

Respiratory And Cardiovascular Diseases:

Due to the high temperature, the volume of hydrocarbon and other pollutant gasses upsurge in the air that in turns cause the people to become the victim of cardiovascular diseases. The smog and other pollutants in the air directly cause respiratory disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Aeroallergen and the pollen at high and dry temperature trigger the attack of asthma in more than 3000million people annually.

Natural Disasters:

The change in temperature also has impacts on the geographical and physical condition of the earth. It has caused irregular rainfall pattern, drought in some part of the earth.  The severe drought and lack of rain in some areas lead to the freshwater crisis and loss of vegetation in some areas. The unusual rain pattern causes the world to encounter great disaster in the form of the tsunami, flood storm, and hurricanes which cause the loss of human life and valuable cattle; it also results in the loss of vegetation. Flood and disaster give birth to fatal epidemic diseases and several water-borne diseases that make a lot of people lose their life.

Global Warming Causes Vector-Borne Disease 

Global warming is also giving birth to many fatal diseases and also importing vector-borne diseases due to transmission of season and alternation of the geographical range of the planet earth.

Skin Ailments:

Ultraviolet radiations emitted by the sun are very harmful to human skin. The ozone layer protects the earth and its inhabitants from these harmful rays. Due to the global warming ozone layer is being destroyed perpetually and the ultraviolet radiation gets their direct exposure to the earth and its life from. The rays cause many skin diseases in a human being.  Direct exposure of the rays on the human skin causes skin cancer beside other skin complications.

Loss Of Human Vegetation  

The severe temperature has also led to the generation and introduction of non-friendly soil bacteria and pesticides invasions on the agricultural sites, the introduction of such foreign species in vegetation regions have led to the destruction of vegetation and crops. 

Serious and necessary steps should be taken by the entire globe’s states and individual to protect the earth from the increasing global warming and its increasing harmful effects. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses emitting vehicles, machines and industries should be diminished or at least lessened. More trees should be planted to make the environment purified from the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses

Mission To Save The Planet Earth

Planet earth is our homes. We are born into it and spend the whole of our life on it and then die and get buried in it. During our life course on the planet earth, we get enormous benefits from it, like a benevolent mother it provides us shelter, feed us with its resources and provides us with air to breathe in order to continue our life on it.  Having lots of benefits from the planet earth, it is also our duty to give the earth and its resources some protection so that likewise us, it can also render enormous benefits to the future generation that will come and depend on for its survival on earth. As the time is passing, the human population on the earth is increasing day by day.  We should take necessary measures to protect the earth and save our planet for the coming generation.

Save the water:

Water is the important constituent of the earth and is consumed by every organism including man, animals, plant and microbes for their survival man cannot live on the earth if he doesn’t get water for more than 2 to 3 days. And then there is less fresh water available on the earth so we need to save it for us and for those who are deprived of the fresh and clean water.  Avoid wastage of water while brushing, washing and bathing. The increase in population is exerting a huge stress on environment and resources of the earth. Because man is in order to fulfill its food and energy requirement, is depending more adversely on the earth resources.

Save energy:

A lot of earth’s natural resources are used for the energy consumption of man, minimize the use of energy tries to use solar energy instead of electrical energy. Besides, the man in his quest to make his life more luxurious is performing actions and inventing the mechanical devices that are polluting the earth’s pure air with the harmful greenhouse gasses.  Keep light off during the day when there is sunlight available to enlighten your interior. Always turn off extra lights in your home. Remove the charger from the socket when you are not charging your mobile phone. When you leave the room or house, don’t forget to switch off extra lights.

Avoid chemical-containing products:

Avoid the products containing chemicals in your daily use. Avoid the use of chemical based deodorant and cosmetic self-care products.  They have the harmful volatile chemical which fuses into the air and makes it toxic use flowers and plants to refresh your air instead of using chemically synthesized air fresheners. Plastic has harmful chemicals in it.  Avoid the use of plastic made products in your home especially in the kitchen. Invulnerable case purchases PBA-labeled plastic products. 

Save resources by using recycled products:

A lot of energy is consumed when a new product is made from the raw material. So we should try to recycle the products made of plastic paper glass Rubber and other stuff.  Recycling of the products will not only conserve the earth’s natural resources but will also save the energy consumption.  This will also reduce the waste dumping in the earth and the sea which is a major environmental concern of this era.

Drive less:

Automobiles and vehicles are the major sources of air pollution on the planet earth. The chemical gas emitted from the cars and other automobiles are a big source of global warming. So, one should drive less. We should share the vehicles and use public transport for moving from one place to another.  In this way, the numbers of cars on the road will be decreased and the increasing global warming will become under control.

Plants more trees:

Green plants make the earth air purified besides it provides us with the shelter, flowers, and fruits.  Almost 70 % of the forest and green plants have been removed by the man due to the increase in population the loss of trees has caused the destruction of wildlife habitats and essential microbes from the earth. Besides, trees are the source of timber, wax, and paper.  So plants should be planted extensively so that the pure air of earth can be protected from the harmful effects of the greenhouse gasses and sources of timber and wax can be conserved for the coming generation of the earth.

How To Protect Our Environment

Environment refers to ecosystem surrounding us containing habitats and other physical factors interacting with each other. All the living organisms including the human being depend on the environment for their existence.  If the environment is clean and pure the life of the ecosystem inhabitants is sure to be healthy. They are certain to be provided with the better air and better food and water   resulted in leading a healthy life.  With the rapid growth in the population of an environment, we can see that the environmental health is getting distorted. We need to take some necessary steps individually and collectively to avert the distortion in our environment else we will be liable to many health and environmental issues.

Nowadays whatever we are buying or doing is affecting our environment, for instance, we purchase the diesel to run our car, the diesel burn to produce the hydrocarbon that is greenhouse gas we cut the trees that are the source of fresh oxygen in the atmosphere.  So we need to take a few necessary actions to sustain the good health our ecosystem.

Plantation of more trees:

We need to plants more and more trees in the public areas as well as in the forests to keep the environment clean and pure. Because tree gives oxygen to the atmosphere.

Clean our home :

Home and hometown is our main environment we reside on it for our basic living need so we need to protect and clean it. Home is the first priority in his clean need to clean the home and the nearby areas so that we and our children get the better sanitary condition on more green plantation should be done in that place.  Litter should be discarded in bins not on the roadside or in any such place.

Think before buying a product:

Make sure when you go shopping that you are buying an inorganic material. Even assess the fabric before buying a cloth piece whether possess the organic dye or organic polyester fabric material in it the eco-friendly relation will be not buying any such product unless needed at urgent.

Promote the 3Rs of recycling:

Recycling of the products should be practiced more. Instead of discarding the materials that can be used again make them reuse.   Products made from the natural resources and raw materials should be recycled again to make new material once they are discarded.T transport should be shared by the people  instead of using separate and individual automobiles  the smoke from the automobile caused the air pollution besides cigarettes and tobacco products smoking should be reduced at the earliest as they have serious malfunctioning effects on the air around us.

Use biodegradable products :

Make the use of biodegradable and eco-friendly material instead of organic material like when you go shopping , use biodegradable shopping bags instead of plastic polymer based synthesized shopping bags.

Effecting environmental cleaning can remove the unwanted waste material from environment to great extent and will provide people living in an ecosystem with the better and healthy living.

Chemical And Physical Properties Of Water

Water is an abundantly occurring natural source. It is found on the surface of the earth as well in the underground resources. Water is said to comprise the 70 percent of the earth’s surface, beside it is present in some ratio in the atmosphere.  Around us, the living being on the earth are also composed of water. The human body is consisting of only 70 percent of water in the form of blood and other liquid states the human body. Water is necessary for the smooth working of many natural processes on earth man and living animal depends on water by in taking it. Man cannot continue his life if he gets deprived of water due to any reason.

Physical properties of water:

Water is present in the form of liquid in nature. It is colorless, odorless, tasteless liquid. But if it is present in reservoirs, it appears with a tinge of blue. Ice is the solid form of water and in gaseous form, it is can felt as water vapors. The boiling point of water is 100 degree Celsius; it is the point when liquid water changes from liquid state to gaseous state. The freezing point, the point when water changed from liquids state to solid state ice is 0 degree Celsius. These above two properties of water are due to hydrogen bonding present in the water molecules. Besides, the water is good universal solvent, able to dissolve minerals and salt in it.

Chemical properties of water:

Water molecule as polar molecule:

The water molecule is composed of 2 hydrogens and one oxygen connected with the covalent bond.   Hydrogen bonding in the water molecules is responsible for different chemical properties in water. A water molecule is a polar molecule because they are unequally shared   electrons between hydrogen and oxygen atoms.  The oxygen has more electronegativity than the hydrogen and the result it attracts more molecules toward it making hydrogen end of molecules positive. This in turns results   in making water soluble for minerals.

Water cannot dissolve nonpolar substances:

The polar substances are easily dissolved in water due to the presence of negative and positive charges on the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in water. the sodium chloride bearing the polar specification get easily dissolved in water while the non-polar molecules are not dissolved in water. They remain as clumped together.

Water as amphoteric compound:

Another property of water is that it is amphoteric compound. It can react with base or acid in a chemical reaction in a laboratory as well as in nature.

Cohesive and adhesive nature of water :

Water is cohesive or adhesive due to the presence of hydrogen bonding in it.  Atoms in water molecules bear small charges that are responsible for making them join them together. Due to this ability water is easily transported to the top parts of plants from the soil it due to this fact that water easily gets sucked by the straw.

Biological properties of water:

Water is an essential element of the cell in plants and animals the cell in animal and human is made up of liquid known as cytoplasm. All the components of organism’s cell like DNA and other organelles are dissolved in water. Water being polar molecule keeps the organelles in the cell from moving apart out of the cell membrane. The electronegativity in of water help in transporting the impulse from and to the brain.

Major Environmental Issues Of Pakistan

The environment of the world is getting degraded day by day with the passage of time. The degradation of environment and the environmental concerns   have become yellow peril for the whole of the world. The concerns are getting more catastrophic due to their effects on the lives of the organisms and human living in it. The environmental concerns are adopting the acute shape due to their increasing drawbacks on the environment and its habitat. Rapid economic and industrial development along with the increase in human population is the core reasons behind the evolution of ecological problems.

Some effects of environmental concerns:

Pakistan is right now confronting many challenging environmental issues that need to be sort out at the first priority air pollution is the most important concern of this era. The rapid increase in the numbering of automobiles on urban roads and the gas emitted from the industries and plants of Pakistan is the main cause of air pollution. The air pollution is much responsible for causing many chronic bronchi ailments in human beings. Secondly, the hazardous pollutant in air mixes up with the rain causing clouds and fall on the earth in the form of acidic air. The acidic air causes hazardous effects on the human beings animals and plants on the earth

Water pollution:

The water pollution is another factor creating serious ecological concern. The water reservoirs in Pakistan are mostly contaminated with the sewerage waste water discarded from the industries and agricultural sites. This contaminated water is consumed by the half of the population the toxic water is responsible for causing serious ailment to the consumers of the water. Besides the poor sewerage system also contribute to contamination of water in urban areas of Pakistan.

Deforestation:

Cutting of forests to construct the roads and residential areas have destroyed the natural environmental health in the country. A policy was presented by the government in 1992, which declared to ban the forest cutting but nothing profound was brought by the policy. Strict and strong legislation should be planned by the government to ensure sustainable harvesting of forest in the country. Secondly, a strategy for carbon financing should be developed at policy level with the motto we value the trees because tree and plantation absorb carbon dioxide from the air. The developing countries will provide the financial aid to support the cause what will be the utter requirement for this cause is that we government will need to ensure the capital comes in and is used straightforwardly for the cause.

Plantation of trees in urban areas:

Urban cities are most populated. Trees in cities absorb carbon dioxide causing the air to get purified. So plantation of new trees is essentially required for the atmosphere. Trees are planted in urban areas, but new trees are to be planted more. Besides, man-made forests like Change Mange ought to be constructed as well.

Pollution from factories:

The waste and toxic material discarded from the factories is the most concerning issue for the Pakistani authorities the waste material is wiped into the rivers causing the marine life to become extinct.  Besides, it pollutes the water in ponds and lakes which directly affects the water consuming bodies near the reservoir of the water. The waste material discarded by the factories is drained into the land area the chemical components in the matter reacts with the soil of the land making the soil erosion and the land deserted.

Climatic change in Pakistan:

The climate condition in Pakistan is continuously changing. Due to global warming, the glaciers in the Himalayan mountain range and Karakorum mountain range is continuously melting causing the floods and unusual rain in Pakistan this subsequently is destroying the crops and cattle in the country. Besides due to global warming the average temperature in the tropical area is also rising annually which will consequently result in less production of crops.