The Climate Change

THE CLIMATE CHANGE
What Is Climate Change?
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may
be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800s, human activities
have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil
and gas.
Burning fossil fuels generates greenhouse gas emissions that act like a blanket wrapped around
the Earth, trapping the sun’s heat and raising temperatures.
Examples of greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change include carbon dioxide
and methane. These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for
example. Clearing land and forests can also release carbon dioxide. Landfills for garbage are a
major source of methane emissions. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land
use are among the main emitters.
Human causes of climate change
Humans cause climate change by releasing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the
air. Today, there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there ever has been in at least the
past 2 million years. During the 20th and 21st century, the level of carbon dioxide rose by 40%.
We produce greenhouse gases in lots of different ways:
 Burning fossil fuels – Fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal contain carbon dioxide that
has been 'locked away' in the ground for thousands of years. When we take these out of
the land and burn them, we release the stored carbon dioxide into the air.
 Deforestation – Forests remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Cutting
them down means that carbon dioxide builds up quicker since there are no trees to absorb
it. Not only that, trees release the carbon they stored when we burn them.
 Agriculture – Planting crops and rearing animals releases many different types of
greenhouse gases into the air. For example, animals produce methane, which is 30 times
more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. The nitrous oxide used for
fertilizers is ten times worse and is nearly 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide!
 Cement – Producing cement is another contributor to climate change, causing 2% of our
entire carbon dioxide emissions.
The Effects of Climate Change
1. Change Will Continue Through This Century and Beyond
Global climate is projected to continue to change over this

century and beyond. The magnitude of climate change beyond
the next few decades depends primarily on the amount of heat-
trapping gases emitted globally, and how sensitive the Earth’s
climate is to those emissions.
2. More Droughts and Heat Waves
Droughts in the Southwest and heat waves (periods of

abnormally hot weather lasting days to weeks)
everywhere are projected to become more intense,
and cold waves less intense everywhere.
Summer temperatures are projected to continue

rising, and a reduction of soil moisture, which
exacerbates heat waves.
3. Hurricanes Will Become Stronger and More Intense
The intensity, frequency and duration of North

Atlantic hurricanes, as well as the frequency of the
strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes, have all
increased since the early 1980s. The relative
contributions of human and natural causes to these
increases are still uncertain. Hurricane-associated
storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to
increase as the climate continues to warm.
4. Sea Level Will Rise 1-8 feet by 2100
Global sea level has risen by about 8 inches since

reliable record keeping began in 1880. It is projected
to rise another 1 to 8 feet by 2100. This is the result
of added water from melting land ice and the
expansion of seawater as it warms.
In the next several decades, storm surges and high

tides could combine with sea level rise and land subsidence to further increase flooding in
many regions. Sea level rise will continue past 2100 because the oceans take a very long
time to respond to warmer conditions at the Earth’s surface. Ocean waters will therefore
continue to warm and sea level will continue to rise for many centuries at rates equal to
or higher than those of the current century.
5. Arctic Likely to Become Ice-Free

The Arctic Ocean is expected to become essentially ice free in summer before mid-
century.
What can we do?
These are the things that we can to help;

 Restore nature to absorb more carbon. The natural world is very good at cleaning up
our emissions, but we need to look after it. Planting trees in the right places or giving
land back to nature through ‘rewilding’ schemes is a good place to start. This is because
photosynthesising plants draw down carbon dioxide as they grow, locking it away in
soils.
 Protect forests like the Amazon. Forests are crucial in the fight against climate change,
and protecting them is an important climate solution. Cutting down forests on an
industrial scale destroys giant trees which could be sucking up huge amounts of carbon.
Yet companies destroy forests to make way for animal farming, soya or palm oil
plantations. Governments can stop them by making better laws.
 Protect the oceans. Oceans also absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere, which helps to keep our climate stable. But many are overfished, used for oil
and gas drilling or threatened by deep sea mining. Protecting oceans and the life in them
is ultimately a way to protect ourselves from climate change.
 Reduce how much people consume. Our transport, fashion, food and other lifestyle
choices all have different impacts on the climate. This is often by design – fashion and
technology companies, for example, will release far more products than are realistically
needed. But while reducing consumption of these products might be hard, it’s most
certainly worth it. Reducing overall consumption in more wealthy countries can help put
less strain on the planet.
 Reduce plastic. Plastic is made from oil, and the process of extracting, refining and
turning oil into plastic (or even polyester, for clothing) is surprisingly carbon-intense. It
doesn’t break down quickly in nature so a lot of plastic is burned, which contributes to
emissions. Demand for plastic is rising so quickly that creating and disposing of plastics
will account for 17% of the global carbon budget by 2050 (this is the emissions count we
need to stay within according to the Paris agreement).
MY PROPOSAL
As a student of Information Technology, I’d like to create an app that

automatically detect and delete a spam email in our cellphones. Emails? Yes
emails, because emails
An email has electrical energy. It is the electrical energy that allows us to run a computer, use
the internet, and store the data from email services on multiple servers. Those servers are in
large data centers, which consume a lot of electricity daily. And electricity is still created by
fossil fuels, resulting in global carbon emissions (CO2e). Carbon emissions are greenhouse gas
emissions from human activity that can damage the environment. It can be factories, cars, etc.,
including emails.
Each carbon emission is equivalent to grams of carbon dioxide per mail.

In 2008, McAfee projected that 62 trillion spam emails are sent throughout the globe. The
typical spam email produces 0.3 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in each message.
Thus, spam energy usage totals 33 billion kilowatt-hours per year worldwide (kWh). This is
the same amount of power consumed in 2.4 million houses, resulting in the same amount of
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as 3.1 million passenger automobiles using 2 billion gallons of
gasoline. Moreover, according to the Science Focus report, a science-based magazine, if you
send over 65 emails, it consumes the same energy as driving a mile in your vehicle.
What happens when ten spam emails deleted?
Let’s say that there are around 2.3 billion email subscribers globally. The typical email is 75 kb
in size. If you delete 10 unwanted emails, 1,725,000 GB of data will be deleted from servers
globally. The energy required to store 1 GB of data is around 32 kWh. As a result, there’s a 55.2
million kWh less energy you could produce to run those servers.
And it translates to a reduction of around 39,035 metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent
(CO2e), or 19356 tonnes of coal burned per day to create that amount of power. Every day, you
can save that amount of CO2e discharged.
If everyone deleted 10 emails, 55.2 million kWh could power almost 61,000 houses.
My app which we can call SPAMAIL DELETER should be a default

app to every android and IOS phone.
Conclusion:
So to answer the question, “Can deleted emails actually save the earth?” Yes,
it can. You can really help the earth breathe by simply deleting your spam as
much as possible because it reduces electric energy consumption.
So this app is must for us, for it can detect and delete a spam emails right
away.

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THE CLIMATE CHANGE

What Is Climate Change?

We produce greenhouse gases in lots of different ways:

The Effects of Climate Change

1. Change Will Continue Through This Century and Beyond

Global climate is projected to continue to change over this

Droughts in the Southwest and heat waves (periods of

Summer temperatures are projected to continue

3. Hurricanes Will Become Stronger and More Intense

The intensity, frequency and duration of North

4. Sea Level Will Rise 1-8 feet by 2100

Global sea level has risen by about 8 inches since

In the next several decades, storm surges and high

5. Arctic Likely to Become Ice-Free

What can we do?

These are the things that we can to help;

As a student of Information Technology, I’d like to create an app that

Each carbon emission is equivalent to grams of carbon dioxide per mail.

My app which we can call SPAMAIL DELETER should be a default

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