ROLE OF ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS IN CLIMATE CHANGE

Abstract

Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns ofaverage weather of a specific region (or more relevantly to contemporary sociopoliticalconcerns, of the Earth as a whole) over an appropriately significant periodof time. Climate change reflects abnormal variations to the expected climate withinthe Earth’s atmosphere and subsequent effects on other parts of the Earth, such asin the ice caps over durations ranging from decades to millions of years. Increasedcarbon dioxide levels are thought to exacerbate the heating effects of the GreenhouseEffect by reducing the re-radiation of heat from the sun and, therefore, increasingthe temperature contained in the atmosphere. The climate of the Earth is alwayschanging. In the past it has altered as a result of natural causes. The changes wehave seen over recent years and those which are predicted over the next 80 yearsare thought to be mainly as a result of human behaviour rather than due to naturalchanges in the atmosphere. The present paper focuses on different type ofanthropogenic emissions and how it contributes and its major role in changingour climate