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| Title: | Global Environmental Challenge |
| Authors: | Khan, Zulfequar Ahmad |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | The ill effects of global warming are all too visible
today. Do we keep on plundering the earth for our material benefits or make
sure we protect it for our future generations?
The world climate has always been highly
variable. Many changes are driven by natural factors, but others are now the
result of a single species (human beings), which is driving a significant shift
in the global climate. People have been influencing the biosphere for at least
8000 years, since the invention of agriculture. But for several decades, it is
the very composition of the global atmosphere that they have been modifying. We
now know that there has indeed been a major change in climate since the arrival
of people on earth, and 18000 years ago, the climate was radically different
from what it is today. |
| Page(s): | 19-22 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0036-8512 |
| Source: | SR Vol.47(09) [September 2010]
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