Global Warming: Impacts and Management

The long term heating of the Earth's atmosphere due to anthropogenic activities is defined as global warming. These activities primarily include burning of fossil fuels, which is responsible for the excess release of heat trapping gases into the Earth's climate. Also known as greenhouse gases, methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are a few examples of greenhouse gases. Production of aerosols and deforestation are some of the other factors which increase global warming. It can have an a...