Agriculture and Plant Science

Global Climate Change

  Global Climate change is one of major topic for the environmentalist to concern about. This effect is the result of heat-trapping gases (also known as greenhouse gases) like water vapor, ozone, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, which absorb the heat radiated from the Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere and then radiate most of the energy back towards the surface. Without this natural greenhouse effect, the surface temperature of the Earth would be about 15.5°C colder. However, increasing activities by humans have been releasing additional heat-trapping gases, intensifying the natural greenhouse effect, thereby changing the Earth’s climate. Global temperatures are markedly rising over this century; by how much and for how long, it depends on several factors, which include the amount of heat-trapping gas emissions and how sensitive is the climate to those emissions.  

•  Agriculture and the environment
• Global warming
• Green House gases
• Effect of Climate on the Crop production