Causes of Climate Change

Average temperature of the Earth has doubled in 50 years.

Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide, trap heat causing dramatic swings in weather.

The swings include melting of ice caps, glaciers, severe cold, rising seas, massive flooding, droughts, famine and pollution of land, water and air.

Emissions trap heat from the sun in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Climate changes impacts on mental-physical health of human beings, creatures.

This includes the environment affecting land - farmland, earthquakes air quality, pollution, temperature (forest fires, swings in temperatures and water from oceans to streams, tsunamis and floods, pollution and dry reservoirs.

All primary causes are linked to the ideology of economic growth, consumerism, population growth and human desire for more and more, alongside natural upheavals.

Humans and animals face loss of habitat and more and more extinction of species.

Around 100 of the world’s major global companies cause climate change.

Here are Seven Primary Causes of Climate Change with Approximate Percentage per Industry

Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas, fracking), for electricity and gas is the main cause of climate change Emissions count for around 30 per cent.
Transport, air, sea and road, causes around 15%. Much of it for pleasure, consumerism and globalisation of goods. Plus led-acid batteries, as in vehicles.
Manufacturing of materials/constructions around 13%, much of it to satisfy consumerism
Agriculture. Chemical fertilisers. Pesticides. Nitrous Oxide. Methane from farm animals. 11 %
Deforestation. Rainforests and forests in the temperate zone. 10% or more.
Fuel Combustion. Burning of fuel, heating in factories, public buildings and homes. 8%
Industrial production. Especially cement and aluminium., emissions from factory chimneys,5%

No percentage figures available. Refrigeration. 1.4 billion refrigerators. 1.6 billion air condition units, plus refrigeration in trucks, supermarkets, factories, hospitals etc. Plus, disposal of unwanted units.

Used for refrigeration, the coolant, HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) function as a greenhouse gas 1000 to 9000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Mining. Chemical manufacturing. Dye Industry, Fracking. Release of carbon dioxide, nitrous acids. Also causes air pollution, smog, acid rain.