Global Warming and Climate Change

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Nature is not responsible for natural calamities, rather human callousness is solely liable for this misfortune. Global warming is the worst threat to the civilization. Still now if man be not careful about its cause then utter ruin is a must. River courses are changed due to human activity, leading to flooding. In fact nature is calm by nature. It does not disturb man unless it has been disturbed. El Nino episodes affect weather over a large area. They have been linked to droughts in Indonesia and Australia. During La Nina episodes, trade winds strengthen and warm surface water accumulates in a deep pool near Asia. Rainfall follows the warm water, bringing heavy rain to parts of Australia and Indonesia. It is not known how the El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle - will be affected if the global climate grows warmer.

The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in man-made greenhouse gas concentrations via an enhanced greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.

These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries. While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC, the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.

Stream: Human Impacts

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As you know well that Francis Bacon, the immortal essayist, wrote many essays viz., Of Love, Of Friendship, Of Ambition, etc. The myriad-minded genius rightly pointed out that all the words of the dictionary can be the themes of essays one can write. But little has been done, in this regard, since his death to finish his unfinished monumental works. In fact Bacon's way of representation ie his rare individual style kindled the imagination already in me and encouraged me as well to write. I am a Civil Servant in India. Yet I write essays to get relief through Catharsis.