Threat of Climate Change

Abstract

The anthropogenic activities of mankind have led to an unprecedented rise in global greenhouse concentrations since the industrial revolution. The consequence of this unequivocal rise in global surface temperature has been witnessed over the last century and more so after 1970. The global surface temperature in the last twenty years (2001-2020) was 0.9°C higher than what was registered during 1850-1900 (IPCC, 2023). This has also been observed that the number of hot days every year has been on the increase when the temperature around touches 50°C. There are multiple reports which have predicted very hot summers across the globe in the coming days and the report further reveals that the total number of days when the temperature crossed 50°C in different parts of the world was 14 in the years between 1980 and 2009 whereas this rose to 26 days during 2010-2019. The year 2022 witnessed the hottest summer in many western and south-western European countries where the temperature was above 2.3°C above the pre-industrial average and this extraordinary temperature rise in different parts of Europe exacerbated many unimaginable things like a severe forest fire, drought, drying up of many water bodies and heat-related deaths.