Climate Change

 

                    Marwa Fida: The writer is a Second-year student and a rising intellectual.

According to realists, we should be ready as the world will be facing hard times in the upcoming fifty years. Climate changes have significant implications for present lives, future generations, and for ecosystems on which humanity depends. Consequently, climate change has been and continues to be the subject of intensive scientific research and public debate. The scientific community has observed it by measuring the temperature that is rapidly exceeding annually. As the atmosphere gets hotter every year, the climate will drastically change.

 There is strong evidence that the warming of the Earth over the last half-century has been caused largely by human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land use, including agriculture and deforestation. The size of future temperature increases and other aspects of climate change, especially at the regional scale, are still subject to uncertainty. Nevertheless, the risks associated with some of these changes are substantial. It is important that decision-makers have access to climate science of the highest quality, and can take account of its findings in formulating proper responses. On a second note, the rising temperature is melting the Arctic and Antarctic ice. 

The effect will accelerate the melting of most of the colossal glaciers. The meltdown of glaciers will raise sea levels, threatening coastal cities. Consequently, many islands and coastal regions will sink in water. In the years to come, several unidentified deadly viruses, frozen in glaciers, will spread around the world. That pervasive virus will be more dangerous than the coronavirus because it is believed to be just a tiny trailer of the upcoming film. Lastly, more trees will be cut down by citizenry or burnt down by forest fire because of which the exquisite forests will be transformed into arid deserts.

 To conclude, one can control all this to some extent as well. To save the planet, one should endeavor best to utilize the resources and take serious measures to avoid this shocking future.