Human influence in the Atmosphere!

Hi everyone! In this post I would like to write about the atmosphere and the human impact on the CO­­2 emissions.

First of all, it is known that CO2 contributes to the greenhouse effect. This effect helps the planet to maintain a temperature able to support life as the average surface temperature without the greenhouse effect would be -33 oC !!! (R. A. Houghton 2003).

BUT the additional CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by the humans activities, is increasing the concentration of the greenhouse gases, enhancing the greenhouse effect, and starting to warm up the Earth (R. A. Houghton 2003).This increase of the temperature helps the "existence" of the climate change.

Carbon emissions from coal fired plants

The climate change is close connected with the sustainable development in terms of human settlements, industries and general with many aspects of the society. For example, the carbon emissions are related with the economic growth and the social life of a country that is reflected in the energy consumption of the houses and the factories (Wibanks et al.2007).

In the next post I will try to describe how the global carbon cycle fights back this emissions and tries to give a positive feedback in the environment.

See you soon!