In: Psychology
What human factors influence climate change?
Human factors influence climate change. Presently, climate is becoming warmer day by day. Air pollution or vehicular pollution is causing changes in Earth’s atmosphere, by causing increase in the amounts of poisonous or greenhouse gases (like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and chlorofluorocarbons), aerosols (small particles) and cloudiness. Greenhouse gases are causing greenhouse effect (or increase in the heat) by absorbing harmful infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases and aerosols is changing the incoming solar radiation and outgoing infrared (thermal) radiation, thereby creating Earth’s energy imbalance. Alterations in the atmospheric properties of the gases and particles result in warming or cooling of the earth's climatic system.
There are industries burning fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There is undesirable and unwanted increase in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to deforestation. Plants absorb harmful carbon dioxide released from human body and various other sources. But due to removal of trees or deforestation, the green leaves are not able to absorb carbon diaoxide. Thus, the level of carbon diaoxide is escalating in the atmosphere.