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Monday, 16 January 2023

Sustainable Shifts 2023- Is Cooling The New Warming?

 

IS COOLING THE NEW WARMING?

Climate change and global warming may have been frequented, interchangeable terms that you have heard over the past couple of years. However, do you really have an understanding of these concepts? If an individual remarked “Climate change and global warming are the same!” Would you agree? If you disagreed with this, you would have knowledge on these terms and their importance. However, if you disagreed you may want to stick around to gain some insight into this. In this piece of ‘Sustainable Shifts’ you, the reader would be able to satisfy the question: “Is cooling the new warming?”


Climate change can be defined as the adverse change in the earth’s weather patterns or temperature. For example, you may have noticed that the earth is experiencing drier, dry seasons and wetter, wet seasons. You may be inquisitive to the root of the phenomena, and it is no other than human ways of production and life. Some human production such as manufacturing, transportation, rearing of cows and electricity usage creates an abundance of greenhouse gases.

Essentially, these gases are carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, methane amongst a few. These gases trap heat within the earth, which allows for the survival of human life. You may ask yourself what is the issue with this. There is none, when these gases are present in a standard amount. However, in excess it can create a plethora of issues for us in the Caribbean, and the wider globe. 

CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON THE CARIBBEAN

·  Heavy Rainfall

· Damaged Coral Reefs

·Higher Temperatures

· Warmer Oceans

· Rising Sea Levels

· Increased Droughts

· Increased Wildfires

CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM

· Changing Snow Patterns

· Changes in Plant Life Cycles

·  Increased Droughts

· Increased Wildfires


Global warming is where the Earth’s temperature is gradually increased. However, unlike climate change, it is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. This phenomena is due to an increase in human activity such as Industrialization and fossil fuel combustion. Additionally, global warming can arise naturally through volcanoes, forest fires and water vapour. Essentially, these events produce the greenhouse effect in the Earth’s atmosphere. This effect occurs when the rays of the sun enter the atmosphere, the heat is then reflected. This heat presents itself in this Earth’s atmospheric component as it is unable to return to space.

Global warming arises as the heat from the Earth’s atmosphere, naturally and man-made produced heat are all prevented from escaping. Therefore it is trapped within Earth, allowing excess heat and a rise in the global temperature. Hence, global warming is produced. Like its counterpart climate change, global warming entails serious effects to the Earth.

EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBALLY.

· Rise in Temperature

· Threats to the Ecosystem

· Climate Change

· Spread of Diseases

· High Mortality Rates

· Loss of Natural Habitat

Fundamentally, climate change refers to changes in weather patterns and growing seasons around the world. Whereas, global warming causes climate change.


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