Global warming is caused by the human activity. The greenhouse gases are responsible for the increase in the Earth’s temperature. Burning carbon based fuels is the main reason of the GHG occurrence and global warming as a result. The researchers all over the world investigate the effects of the GHGs and their impacts on temperature. Schneider (2008) explains that the Earth goes through climate changes regularly. The concentrations of carbon dioxide are the main measure that is used to prove climate transformations that the planet experiences. According to Schneider, carbon dioxide concentrations preserved in ice demonstrate that these concentrations are the highest now than ever. Ice from Greenland and Antarctica can be investigated for having the GHGs in bubbles of air. Literature review offers discussion about the GHG regarding global warming, because it is still a highly controversial topic. Today, the GHG factor is mentioned as the consequence of burning fuels.
Burning fuels is the main factor that causes the GHG and global warming as the result. Azid, Juahir, and Aris (2013) demonstrate that burning fuels is a process of vehicle exhaust because of the fossil fuels’ combustion, food processing, and different manufacturing industries. Satterthwaite (2010) explains that the increased use of burning fuels based on carbon dioxide is connected to consumerism. The population of the Earth is nearly 8 billion people. The majority of these people believe that consumerism is the true purpose of human life. Burning fuels, therefore, is the reasonable consequence of consumerism.
The increased levels of consumption lead to crucial climate change and drive global warming because of the GHG. The population tends to rise, therefore, the leading nations produce the increase of average amount of gas fuel emissions per person. The average amount of gas fuel emissions is 2 tons of carbon dioxide per person. There are nations, however, which produce far more emissions, and that is the reason of the increase of fuel burning emissions. The more emissions the nation produces, the more contribution to the global warming it provides. Some nations produce from 7.1 to 7.5 tons of the GHG per person.
The wealthiest nations are the best consumers. Their contribution to the GHG is nearly 80 percent, while the nations of the lowest income produce only one percent of all GHG. Household consumption matters when the GHGs are measured. Satterthwaite (2010) states that the poorer the household consumption is, the less GHG emissions are produced. In case the world’s population grows because of the nations with the highest rates of the household consumption, the situation with the GHGs emissions and global warming is dangerous. In contrast, if most of the world’s population growth is among very poor households, this growth is not the problem.
Another important factor that contributes to the GHGs is the behavior of the manufacturing industry. Kahn (2012) explains that the Industrial Revolution led to the increase of the GHG emissions because of rapid technological development. Supplies and services that are the results of the new manufacturing industry produce more emissions of the GHGs. The key factors that contribute to the GHGs include equipment, distribution patters, and production facilities that characterize a particular manufacturing behavior. Federal legislation regarding these factors are important, because it can make the plants and factories produce less GHGs’ emissions.
The researchers like Schneider (2008) make the emphasis that the immediate global agreement about the GHGs emissions cannot reduce them. All these protocols are unrealistic hopes to make the environment better, reducing the fuel burning emissions and slowing global warming. As a result, the planet is believed to continue warming up. Over the next hundreds of years, the temperature is likely to increase up 0.9-2.5°F. The most influential factors that make this happens are consumerism of the wealthiest nations, natural process of global warming, manufacturing behavior’s improvements, and growth of the population. The opinion on the negative impact is also supported in the UN Academic Impact. Specifically, the article demonstrates how the global consumerism, particularly of food negatively impacts global warming. (UN Academic Impact). The immediate effect of the global warming has also been reported by the CNN. Despite the human efforts to cut down consuming energy, the climate change stills proves to be irreversible. (Miller, 2017).