Environment 101

A good knowledge of your environment enables you to take proper care of it. The enclosed article reveals some of the similar issues and terminology related to you environment.

It is our foremost duty to save our planet earth. There does not seem any favorable chance that NASA would ever find a planet, other than earth, where life would be possible.

Let us first analyze the prevailing conditions of our environment. NASA reveals that 2005 may emerge as the warmest year ever since 1800 due to weak El and man made greenhouse gases.

Let us start by assessing the status of our environment.

According to NASA, weak El Nino and human-made greenhouse gases could make 2005 the warmest year since records started being kept in the late 1800s.

The role of human-made pollutants plays a big part in events such as El Nino. Since past 30 years, there has been a trend of warm weather due to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

There has been a strong warming trend over the past 30 years, a trend that has been shown to be due primarily to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Year 1998 left behind the years 2002 and 2003, and recorded the warmest temperature.

Volcanic eruptions that launch tiny particles of sulfuric acid into the upper atmosphere in 1963, 1982 and 1991 can also change climates from a few months to a few years.

Also, El Ninos - when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean - have intense short-term influences on climate. The spike in global temperatures in

1998 was associated with one of the strongest El Ninos of recent centuries and a weak El Nino contributed to the unusually high global temperatures in 2002 and 2003, NASA said.

Carbon dioxide emitted by the automobile industry is the most common greenhouse gas. Earth's surface absorbs more of the sun's energy than gets reflected back to space.

More then 160 countries got together in Kyoto, Japan for about 10 days from 1 December to 11 December, to persuade Developed nation to control the greenhouse gases, in accordance with the objectives laid down, in 1992, by the Framework Convention on Climatic Change.

The consequence of this meeting was Kyoto Protocol because of which the developed nations agreed and controlled the diffusion of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. The United States promised to lower the levels by 7%(of 1990 levels) from 2008 to 2012. Dictionary.com appreciates the prevailing developments of the recent times, as it is easier to maintain them with the passing time without causing harm to the environment, apart from these the vested interests of the future generations are also satisfied with the current developments.

Dictionary com defines sustainable development as any construction that can be maintained over time without damaging the environment; development balancing near-term interests with the protection of the interests of future generations.

In order to maintain the consistency, the above mentioned concept of development should be adopted practically by taking a bus and not the usual car, back and forth, to work. This, if employed on large scale, can control the greenhouse effect immensely in times to come. Henceforth, the economic growth can be attained without hampering the safe environment.