Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane absorb heat, reducing the amount that escapes back to space. As the atmosphere abso€rbs heat energy it warms the oceans and the surface of the Earth. This process is called the greenhouse effect.
An estimated 19% of the world’s methane production comes from rice paddies. As populations increase in rice-growing areas, more rice and more methane are produced.
Climate Change Raises Sea Level, Endangers Human Health
The World Health Organization predicts that as the earth’s thermostat continues to climb, human health problems will only become more frequent: devastating heat waves, poisonous plants producing more potent toxins, air quality plummeting on summer days, and disease-carrying insects swarming mountain villages. Malnutrition caused by periodic droughts, is responsible for an estimated 3.5 million deaths each year.
Both extremes, scarcities and excess water from lack and torrential rainfall, will increase the burden of diarrheal disease, which is spread through contaminated food and water. Diarrheal disease is the second leading infectious cause of childhood mortality and accounts for a total of approximately 1.8 million deaths each year.
Mitigating Climate Change by Using Biofuels
With more Filipinos added daily to the current population of 87 million, the use of fossil fuels is most likely to increase. “Unless new oil fields are discovered and developed, the crude oil supply will be critical within the next 40 years apart from becoming prohibitively expensive,” warned Dr. Renato Labadan, one of the most prominent scientific minds in the country.
Climate Change Impact on High-risk Cities and Adaptation
UNFCCC Climate Change Summit Shows Rare India and China Unity
Martin Parry on Worsening Climate Change Impacts
Developing Countries Unhappy with Inadequate UNFCCC Adaptation Fund
The climate summit ended in the early hours of Saturday with the collapse of a key deal to pay developing countries to cope with global warming. The senior-most member of the Indian government delegation said: "This is one of the saddest moments I have witnessed" during his attendance in 12 such summits.
Green Investments for Managing Global Financial Crisis Better
Greenpeace Say No to Coal at Climate Change Summit, Poland
Poznan Climate Change Summit Adaptation Fund
Climate Change Summit Opens with Call for Global Solidarity at Poznan, Poland
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