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Climatic Change in Context with Health
Published in Debleena Bhattacharya, V K Singh, Climate Changes and Epidemiological Hotspots, 2022
Debleena Bhattacharya, V K Singh
Global warming and climate change have a very strong interrelationship in environment. The capacities of the GHGs to entrap the solar heat within the atmosphere have a detrimental impact on natural habitats, health and also agriculture. According to studies there was an abrupt end to the ice age 7,000 years ago. After the end of the ice age there was the beginning of the modern climatic era of human civilisation. There is an increase in sea level as the glaciers and polar ice caps are melting due to global warming, which will lead to severe floods in some areas, droughts and other natural calamities. The Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (2007) gave a clear flowchart for the global warming scenario in the 21st century. The average global temperature as predicted by scientists could increase the temperature between 1.4°C and 5.8°C in the coming years. Despite best efforts global warming has influenced the whole world and the variation in climate is now more evident.
The New Energy Reality
Published in Anco S. Blazev, Energy Security for The 21st Century, 2021
Note: The increased climate warming is contributing to increased melting of the ice cap, which is threatening to disrupt the natural cycle—including the ocean waters’ cooling effects. As global temperatures rise, ice is melted. As the ice melts, the overall temperature at the poles increases, contributing to further and faster ice melting. This creates a catch 22 situation with the ice caps melting, the ocean air conditioning decreasing, and the ocean levels increasing worldwide.
Fossil Fuel Combustion: Air Pollution and Global Warming
Published in Brian D. Fath, Sven E. Jørgensen, Megan Cole, Managing Air Quality and Energy Systems, 2020
In addition to radiative forcing, global warming may be enhanced by the so-called feedback effects. For example, water vapor is a natural GHG. When the temperature of the ocean surface increases, the evaporation rate will increase. As a consequence, the average water vapor content of the atmosphere will increase. This causes more absorption of the outgoing infrared radiation and more global warming. Furthermore, increased evaporation may cause more cloud formation. Clouds and aerosols also can trap outgoing terrestrial radiation, further increasing global warming. Melting ice caps and glaciers decrease the reflection of incoming solar radiation (reduced albedo), which also increases global warming. The prediction of the feedback effects is more un-certain than the prediction of radiative forcing, but generally, it is assumed that the feedback effects may double the surface temperature increases because of radiative forcing alone.
Optimization of charging infrastructure planning for plug-in electric vehicles based on a dynamic programming model
Published in Transportation Planning and Technology, 2022
Abdul Haseeb Khan Babar, Ali Yousaf
In recent years, global warming has become one of the major issues around the world. It is a global phenomenon, where glaciers and ice caps are melting, atmospheric temperatures are rising and abrupt climate changes are occurring. These changes have caused an increase in sea levels, forest fires, and other natural disasters, which have endangered the lives of every species on the planet. One of the leading causes of global warming is an increase in the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and other green house gases (GHG). These emissions are a result of the combustion process, where fossil fuels are burnt to generate energy for utilization in industries, power generation, and transportation. According to statistics, there has been an increase of 90 percent in emission levels since 1970 (Boden, Andres, and Marland 2017). To combat the ever-increasing emission levels, countries are adopting green technologies and green practices in every economic sector.
Nuclear Energy, Environment and Public Safety: North-South Politics
Published in Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment, 2019
The levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) have been increasing and 2010 became the hottest year on record [5]. This was soon eclipsed by 2014 and again by 2015. Increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have devastating impacts on both the world's environment and its economy. The increase in global temperatures has caused environmental degradation leading to rising sea levels, increased pressures on wildlife and accelerated melting of the polar ice caps. At the rate global population is increasing, it is estimated that by 2050 there will be over 9 billion people living on the planet. This will cause demand for freshwater resources and agricultural goods to increase, thus challenging the Earth's capacity to fulfill such a huge demand [5]. To sustain Earth's life forms for the next few centuries, we need to use sustainable methods of development, those that are economically-viable and environmentally friendly. One possible alternative is to develop clean sources of energy that are sustainable and eco-friendly, as opposed to conventional carbon-based energy sources.
The impacts of coastal flooding and sea level rise on critical infrastructure: a novel storyline approach
Published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2023
Elco E. Koks, D. Le Bars, A.H Essenfelder, S. Nirandjan, P. Sayers
The climate change aspect of the storyline framework considers the influence of four climate drivers that are significant in the context of sea level rise (Figure 1): (i) melting of land ice which includes Antarctica, Greenland and glaciers and ice caps around the world; (ii) land water storage; (iii) glacial isostatic adjustment; and (iv) thermal expansion and changes in ocean circulation. A change in storms could result in larger extreme sea levels and increased wave actions but there is still a large uncertainty about the potential magnitude of these effects (Bricheno & Wolf, 2018; Sterl et al., 2015); therefore, we only focus on mean sea level change in this study.