Global Warming In India

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layer, is also an important factor. The climate system is a complex, interactive system consisting of the atmosphere, land surface, snow and ice, oceans and other bodies of water, and living things.

GREEN HOUSE EFFECT:

Green House effect is the phenomenon whereby the earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation, and is mediated by the presence in the atmosphere of gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane that allow incoming sunlight to pass through, but absorb the heat radiated back from the earth's surface. Thus the Green house gases (GHGs) provide a blanketing effect in the lower strata of the earth�s atmosphere, and this blanketing effect is being enhanced because of the human activities like burning of fossil fuels etc.

GLOBAL WARMING:

�Global warming is defined as an increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere, especially a sustained increase great enough to cause changes in the global climate�. The term global warming is synonymous ...

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as depicted in red color. The blue colored areas show the lower than normal temperatures, and thus are very few. The recent catastrophic climatic events like the massive floods in Pakistan and India, the Hurricane Katrina in the United States, the prolonged droughts in Australia, China, Pakistan, India and Texas, are all the results of increased temperatures due to global warming. During the 21st century, climatic disasters occurred five times as frequently and killed or affected seventy times as many people. Between 2000 and 2004, an average of 26 climatic disasters was reported each year. Thus, the immense geological changes will continue their destruction unabated if steps to ...

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