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Climatic Changes and Sollution
Climatic Changes and Sollution
The Main cause of change in the climate is LIFE:Life affects climate through its role in
the carbon and water cycles and through such mechanisms as albedo, evapotranspiration, cloud formation,
and weathering. Examples of how life may have affected past climate include:
glaciation 2.3 billion years ago triggered by the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis, which depleted the
atmosphere of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and introduced free oxygen.
another glaciation 300 million years ago ushered in by long-term burial of decomposition-resistant detritus of
vascular land-plants (creating a carbon sink and forming coal)
termination of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 55 million years ago by flourishing
marine phytoplankton[1
*It projects that increasingly severe heatwaves, floods, storms and forest fires will be
responsible for as many as 500,000 deaths a year by 2030, making it the greatest
humanitarian challenge the world faces.
Climate change is expected to have the most severe impact on water supplies, it said.
"Shortages in future are likely to threaten food production, reduce sanitation, hinder
economic development and damage ecosystems. It causes more violent swings between
floods and droughts. Hundreds of millions of people are expected to become water
stressed by climate change by the 2030