Global Warming And Its Impacts On India

Abstract

The 21st century unfolds with global warming as an urgent, pervasive challenge. This paper delves into strategies addressing this issue, including greenhouse utilization to regulate gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons. These gases form a greenhouse ensemble, trapping radiant heat and laying the foundation for global warming. The Industrial Revolution's advent in the 1800s brought unintended environmental consequences, with coal combustion, petroleum, and natural gases escalating carbon dioxide levels to 383 parts per million by 1980. With a global population surge to 8 billion in 50 years, projections indicate a 5-degree Celsius temperature rise by the century's end, impacting weather, global retreat, and sea levels. This paper explores global warming's multifaceted impacts, from altered precipitation to increased extreme weather intensity. Repercussions include shifts in agriculture, reduced streamflow’s, species extinctions, and disease vectors. Reports attribute glacier retreat, ice-shelf disruption, and sea-level rise to global warming. Forecasts predict a carbon dioxide surge to 541 to 970 parts per million by the century's end. Focusing on India, the fourth-largest carbon dioxide contributor globally, the paper navigates industrialization, coal energy, and urbanization challenges. Illuminating India's unique struggles, it contributes to the global discourse on sustainable solutions amidst the pressing environmental crisis.