Tag: global warming
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How is greenhouse effect harmful?
Have you ever wondered why the climate keeps changing? What exactly makes you to think that it is effecting your nature for green living? Well, the answer to this question is greenhouse effects. First of all to start with what is greenhouse effects? Green House effects is the phenomenon in which gases are present. Some…
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Glaciers are melting and we should be concerned about it!
Antarctica is the southernmost continent in the world and the only one which is uninhabited. It’s a frozen landmass which is covered by 98% of ice that is on an average 2kms thick. It’s the coldest, driest, windiest place in the world with very low annual precipitation.…
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Global Warming – A Nightmare in future
Global Warming is defined as the increase in the average temperature of Earth’s Atmosphere. Since 1970, most of the increase has been in the oceans, which is about 90%. Global Warming also refers to the increase in temperature of the Earth’s surface. Since the year 2000, the surface temperature has increased about 0.8 0 C, which is…
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Climate change – Affected Earth
Let me take you to the future, there is breaking news on your T.V. news channel- “In Himalayas and there is scorching ‘Heat’, It’s raining in Sahara Desert!!” Shocked? But it will soon be a bitter truth for all human beings living on this planet. Ever Increasing human population their needs and wants, which are…
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Development and Global warming
According to Malthusian theory, there exists a close relationship between population growth and the environment surrounding us. As population in an area increases, there will be more pressure on the resources available which ultimately leads to famine, hunger, environmental degradation and thereby, causes a great impact on the climate. More people means more demand for…
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Global warming: A rising fear
Rising sea levels .Growing wild fires. Unfortunate droughts .Radiating heat waves. All these are the horrifying results of a planet that suffers a quiet turbulence. When the temperature of the earth’s climate system accelerates above a certain average temperature , it results in a critical situation called the ‘global warming’. It mainly pertains to the…
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Small Changes in Lifestyle: Big Steps in Reducing Global Warming
‘How cute!’ exclaimed Hanaa, watching the documentary on polar bear cubs sliding on their bellies on television. They were explaining how the bears are highly endangered and how global warming is a threat to their survival. She grew a little morose at those words, completely unaware that even when she is concerned about the cute…
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Energy Conservation Techniques
With the electricity bill skyrocketing above your financial horizons, you’re left miserable with nothing but a decision that now seems altogether like a cliché – Save Electricity!!! Before it’s too late and your bank balance turns into a wrecking mediocre empty pot, you need to act. Yes, definitely. Sardonically, it might be for your personal…
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Renewable Energy-The Future is Here
If you are sitting and looking at a green living site I’m sure you’ve heard all the rantings that go like, “fossil fuels are BAD!! Renewable energy FTW !!” You know what, the Ranters have it absolutely right. Since the age of industrialization, we have been using the combustion of fossil fuels as a source…
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Global Dimming- A Dead End?
Sun has been the primitive energy source for all the natural processes occurring on earth ever since the first unicellular organisms came into being, the dinosaurs started roaming around or the very planet came into existence. Hydrogen nuclei fusing into helium ones at temperature as high as thousands of degree Celsius makes life possible 149,600,000…