Abstract

gases were absent.However, it’s worth noting that, the Earth’s natural greenhouse effect is essential to the living things. The major challenge comes when the greenhouse effect is initiated by human activities, like using fossil fuels and deforestation. If no efforts are made to combat this menace, the range of possible temperature increase is approximate to be increased by 1.7-3.5^oc in fifty years’ time. Hence human activities, as the major contributing factors to the greenhouse effect, will be the center of my focus, i.e., this is our primary area of interest in this research paper.

Objectives

1. Inquire into the reasons for increases in production of greenhouse gases and discuss remedies to global warming.
2. Propose the international problems that need to be addressed to combat

the greenhouse effect.

3. Discuss the effects of global warming on humans and plants

Discussion of the objectives

Some of the greenhouse gases are the chlorofluorocarbons, commonly known as (CFCs), carbon (IV) oxide, nitrous oxide and Ozone. CFCs have a very long atmospheric lifetime up to 2000 years.

Since the industrial revolution, carbon (IV) oxide ha increased to 65 parts per million (ppm). This is approximately122.4%.

Activities that increase greenhouse concentration

The primary human activity that contributes to the greenhouse effect is the energy use behavior (Archer, 2007, p. 103). This will include things like use of automobiles, power production, air travel and factory production. Research has shown that United States of America is the leading producer of greenhouse gases. A person in United States produces 10.5 times as much carbon compared to a person in India. But we note that India’s use of fossil fuel has increased significantly, from 1970 to 1980.This can be attributed to the significant change in its energy use due to hiked use of vehicles, gasoline powered farming implements, new power production plants, and immense industrial development (Dornbusch & Poterba, 1991, p. 33)

Solutions

The solution to this menace would be introduction of environmental friendly sources of energy as discussed below:

• Introducing energy efficient methods to combat carbon (IV) oxide emissions. This will significantly reduce the dependence on fossil fuels
• Renewable energy-this is energy gotten from natural sources such as water, harnessing wind, solar energy biomass and geothermal. This will significantly reduce overdependence on fossil fuels, which are non-renewable.

• Managing forests-trees play a significant role in absorbing carbon (IV) oxide during photosynthesis. Hence, people should be enlightened on the significance of conserving forests to help curb the incidences of global warming.
• Environmental friendly technology-the government has a vital role to play in ensuring that businesses implement environmental friendly technologies in the manufacturing process; this will ensure that the company takes effective measures to regulate the gases emitted
• Use of solar lamps-these will reduce the emission of poisonous gases, like the black carbon. This will go a long way in reducing the global warming(Zedillo, 2008, p. 3)
• Use of efficient cook stoves-this will save the forests,in addition to reducing the emissions of black carbon, biodiversity and habitats
• Encourage environmental laws and treaties to enlighten the society on the importance of environmental conservation. (Singer & Avery, 2007, p. 55)
• Mitigation And adaptation-mitigation involve efforts to reduce the content of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere while adaptation involves using other ways to counteract the effects of higher temperatures as a result of greenhouse effect(stern 2007

• Prevention-this is the most active policy that can take the form of sculpture scrubbers, in the case of acid rain, abandoning the use of CFCs and other potential ozone reducing gases.

International remedies

The sequel, the 1985 UNEP conference, in Villach, attended by several scientists, published a report stating that, policy initiatives were to be enacted, to mobilize an internationally coordinated effort to study policy options. Here the work was to be organized by international organizations called international panel for climate change(IPCC) established 1988.In its report the IPCC has, in addition to laying out the range of scenarios it has investigated, included the report whether the consensus of experts judged a particular impact to be “more likely than not” “very likely or” virtually certain”.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the global warming, as a result of climate change, is likely to worsen, if the current economic, technological and demographic trends continue. This will cause the physical systems to be imbalanced. The fact that the society do not have all the resources to counteract the adverse effects of global warming and climate change call for the adoption of policy plans that will achieve widely agreed societal benefits. Development of alternative environmentally safer energy technologies will achieve much. More resources should be channeled to intensive research biological and social scientific areas.

References

Archer, D. (2007). . Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.

Dornbusch, R., & Poterba, J. M. (1991). Global warming: Economic policy responses. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Singer, S. F., & Avery, D. T. (2007). Unstoppable global warming: Every 1,500 years. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Zedillo, P. L. (2008). Global warming: Looking beyond Kyoto. New Haven, CT: Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University