Causes

• The greenhouse effect is the main cause of climate change in the world. Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), water vapor (H2O), and methane (CH4) – keep heat from escaping Earth’s atmosphere.

 

• There is more water vapor contributing than any other gases. It is a feedback gas, which means it can change and react to changes in temperature. When Earth’s atmosphere heats up, clouds, precipitation and water vapor increase.

 

• Damaging carbon dioxide, created naturally at low levels, but also from burning fossil fuels and increasing to higher levels very quickly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, is the main cause of human induced climate change.

 

• Methane is a more volatile greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and also caused by natural forces and from human interference, but is far less abundant in the atmosphere than CO2.

 

• Nitrous oxide comes from the use of soil fertilizers, burning fossil fuels, nitric acid, and biomass burning. CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons, are man-made compounds, often found in many typical household products, though laws have reduced their existence and effects somewhat. Though with the exception of CFCs these gases are produced naturally, but they are done so at fairly low levels in this method.

 

• Human interference has contributed the most to their dangerous increase, which has led to a fairly rapid uptick in the climate change crisis in the last 50 years.

 

• This is mainly due to industrial processes, deforestation, decomposition of waste in landfills, and manure management. With population increase, the effects heightened from the need for more livestock to feed humans, better technology to provide jobs, and an even heavier and demanding transportation vehicle use.
  
  
  
  
   

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“Climate change causes: A blanket around the earth.” Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet, 28 Nov. 2016. Web. 6 Dec. 2016.