Nowadays, Global warming is becoming a serious problem. The article”Earth is overeating. Millions are already feeling the pain” from The New York Times mentioned “for the past 60 years, every decade has been hotter than the last, and 2020 is poised to be among the hottest years ever.
As the environmental pollution is more and more strict, the temperature of all the world has dramatically increased.Gradually, some disasters such as drought, flood Glaciers Melting follow. With the development of the economy, more and more greenhouse gases are being discharged into the air. CO2 makes up about 70% of the greenhouse gases, which is considered to be one of the greatest causes of global warming.
People around the world may feel that the climate has been getting steadily warmer and warmer in recent years. For example, heat waves are becoming more frequent in Athens. According to temperature records kept by the National Observatory of Athens, “there were fewer than 20 hot days (with temperatures over 99 degrees Fahrenheit, or 37 Celsius) from 1897 until 1906. By the mid-1980s, there were still fewer than 50 hot days per decade. From 2007 to 2016, though, the number had risen to 120 hot days.” When I start to look at these figures, I get very worried about them. An 11-degree warmed world would be a dramatically different world.
The dangerous extremes of climate change are already affecting Nigeria’s poorest people. “Hotter days and hotter nights are more frequent, while the number of cool days and nights has decreased, a trend that studies have observed throughout West Africa.”
Episodes of extreme humid heat at levels the human body cannot tolerate for many hours at a time have more than doubled in frequency since 1979, according to a recent scientific paper. South Asia and the Gulf Coast of the United States are among the places hardest hit. Sweat can’t evaporate as fast. The body can’t cool down. Like India is already hot. An increase of just a few degrees can be dangerous for people who work outdoors.
Heat is the deadliest form of extreme weather for older Americans.
According to the most recent available data, from 2018, Brownsville was among New York City’s hottest, with average daytime highs around two degrees Fahrenheit higher than the city as a whole.
We must take effective measures to save our planet. So what do we do? It seems for me, First, we could use more clean energy and less coal and oil. Second, we should go to work on foot instead of driving a car if possible. Third, we should plant more trees, because plants can turn CO2 into oxygen. More importantly, we should form the habit of saving energy in our daily life.
