Smog And Climate Change
What is Climate change?
Climate change is defined as a long-term shift in weather conditions identified by changes in temperature, precipitation, winds, and other indicators. Climate change can involve both changes in average conditions and changes in variability, including, extreme events.
There would be no life on Earth without the sun's warmth. Thanks to the Ozone layer, some of the incoming solar radiation bounces back into space, and a small bit is trapped in our atmosphere. Without this layer of insulation, Earth would be a frozen planet orbiting the sun along with the other planets. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important gas because of its key role in this layer of insulation. But it is also bad for the health of our planet. why? Carbon is stored in plants, soil, the ocean, and even us humans. We release it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide through burning fossil fuels and cutting down trees. In fact, we have released so much carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases that today's atmosphere contains 42 per cent more carbon dioxide than it did before the industrial era. Consequently, the result of this is climate change. Global temperatures are rising at rates never before seen in the known history of the planet. The global average temperature has risen by 0.7 degrees Celsius since the 1900's.
There would be no life on Earth without the sun's warmth. Thanks to the Ozone layer, some of the incoming solar radiation bounces back into space, and a small bit is trapped in our atmosphere. Without this layer of insulation, Earth would be a frozen planet orbiting the sun along with the other planets. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important gas because of its key role in this layer of insulation. But it is also bad for the health of our planet. why? Carbon is stored in plants, soil, the ocean, and even us humans. We release it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide through burning fossil fuels and cutting down trees. In fact, we have released so much carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases that today's atmosphere contains 42 per cent more carbon dioxide than it did before the industrial era. Consequently, the result of this is climate change. Global temperatures are rising at rates never before seen in the known history of the planet. The global average temperature has risen by 0.7 degrees Celsius since the 1900's.
Smog and climate change
As you know, smog is linked to weather conditions. And because temperature regulates smog, smog is more severe on a hot, sunny day than on a cool windy day. With the rapidly rising rates of globat temperature, all living beings are being forced to adapt to new and worse surroundings. Even humans. As the average temperature rises, more smog will be produced because smog is always more severe on a hot day. Humans will be forced to get accustomed to living with, walking around in, and breathing smog. In China the smog levels are already dangerously high. They are being forced to close highways, roads and airports because of low visibility. As the global temperature increases and climate changes- smog will continue to get worse, and there will be consequences.
Reducing smog
There are many ways to reduce smog:
- Drive less
- Use public transportation
- Carpool
- Monitor energy use
- Reduce energy consumption
- Plant trees