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Factors that contribute to Climate Change - Coggle Diagram
Factors that contribute to Climate Change
Deforestation
Altered Water Cycles
a lack of cloud cover can lead to extreme weather changes, especially if the imbalances persist for a long time. Effects such as desertification, and droughts can happen in extreme cases of a lack of cloud coverage.
Deforestation greatly effects the water cycles and cloud formations around them through a proses called transpiration which is the water released from trees leafs
When trees are cut down they release tons of carbon emissions
Due to the high amounts of carbon that each tree stores, the cost of cutting one down is that it releases the carbon that it has stored inside of it
This means that cutting down a tree is not only disrupting the forest from helping the environment in the future, but also undoing all of the posotive impact that it has had over its lifetime
Forests are one of the biggest natural carbon sinks on earth, with them consuming an estimated 7.6 billion metric tonnes of CO2 per year.
Burning Fossil Fuels
High amounts of greenhouse gasses emitted into the atmosphere
The burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil creates a large amount of methane and CO2 that gets emitted directly into the atmosphere. It is estimated that a shokingly large 68-75% of yearly carbon emissions are from the burning of fossil fuels
High carbon emissions greatly impacts the green house effect which significantly warms up the earth, which is why it has been given the name of global warming. This is especially concerning considering we do not have a fast and efficient way to remove the green house gasses from our atmosphere
Water & Land Pollution
although this is not a direct cause from the burning of fossil fuels it is still important to mention in this section. The amount of land and water pollution that energy sources such as coal and oil produce is monumentious. Coal mining takes up large plots of land and are filled with nature, causing mass desturuction of land.
things such as oil spills also cause major water pollution due to the difficulty of cleaning an oil spill, as well as the damage it does to aquatic ecosystems.
Industrial Processes
Resource Extraction
resource extraction, especially things like mining cause a large amount of habitat loss and deforestation. it also causes a large amount of green house gas emissions from the machinery used and soil erosion in the areas near the production
Direct Process Emissions
direct proses emissions are the emission that are produced directly from the production of something, for example the production of cement, chemicals, and metals. it isnt from the burning of somthing but directlty from the production
one great example of this is the production of Cement, which creates and directly produces heavy amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere
Urbanization
transportation
Cars are know to produce a large amount of carbon emissions, but with the urbanization in recent times as well as the increase in cars they have became a significant factor to climate change
Cars produce around 4.6 metric tons per year, and thats counting gas cars since electric ones are different. with around 1.4 billion cars on the road in total that shows us that all the cars in the world produce around 6.4 billion metric tones.
Urban Heat Island Effect`
The urban heat island effect is when building and roads absorb significantly more heat than the surrounding areas, causing them to be significantly hotter than the surrounding areas.
This effect can cause the air quality within cities to be pour, as well as heavy smog. The effect can be easily reduced purely by adding greenspace to the top of buildings or just proper planing for cities
