Kazi Ashraf: how climate change discussion has been shaping the world

Is this a coincidence? It is beneficial to know what exactly climate change is to better understand the discussions. According to the United Nations, it is the shift in the global temperatures and weather patterns, thus shifting the local or global climate. That is due to the process of emissions into our atmosphere through greenhouse gases.

While climate sceptics believe everything happening is natural due to volcanism and carbon emission from stored environmental safes, the scale of the anthropogenic influence tends to be ignored by that side. Private transport, energy consumption, and pollutants have significantly accelerated the climate change process. 2021 had seen 39 gigatons of CO2 emissions, a significant 5% due to our reduced lockdown restrictions.

We can find the answer to that question by strengthening our atmosphere. Each gas emitted vibrates at a specific frequency, making it more difficult for the solar radiation to escape back into the mesosphere. So essentially, the greenhouse gases help the earth act like an oven, which is helpful but means that we are trapping too much solar radiation. So, carbon storage is slowly becoming emitters due to our natural influence, almost like a domino effect.

Let’s start with vegetation, which takes in the carbon from photosynthesis. Due to deforestation, now the once-stored carbon will emit into the atmosphere, resulting in greater content of solar radiation to be stored. That then heats the oceans, the most significant storage component as it covers 70% of our planet, releasing the carbon and other gases from changing the thermocline circulation, with other natural processes of the carbon sink. As a result, oceans will warm up and heat the ice caps, raising the water levels. Now that oceanic content has increased and heated up, this will add to the flooding of low-lying islands and greater amounts of storm surges, which have already been noticed.