SOLUTIONS
Reduce emissions from daily life (fossil fuel, traffic emissions, factories)
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Warmer atmosphere: dry areas will have more severe wildfires and heatwaves, wet areas will experience more flooding (faster evaporation), hurricanes become more devastated (warmer ocean)
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Apply usage of renewable and clean energy (nuclear power plants, solar panels,....)
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Switch to electric traffic methods (subway, electric cars, electric buses,...)
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Applied technologies in factories and productions (may seem costly but will have a great effect)
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Government policies: restrict waste produced by factories, taxes on non environmental friendly vehicles,....
Reduce reckless deforestation
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More trees → more photosynthesis → the trees absorb CO2 (a substance which radiates radiation causing climate change)
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Forest help soak up excess rainwater, prevent flood and reduce flood intensity
Reduce disposable items / change ways of treating waste
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Burning plastic wastes (plastic incineration) produces a huge amount of carbon dioxide (U.S. emissions from plastics incineration in 2015 were 5.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) → climate change
Result
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The majority of extreme weather around the world are still rooted from human activities (fossil fuel usage, carbon dioxide emissions, etc)
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However, we can’t deny that there are cases where extreme weather is just a natural variability, and it is a normal interaction between elements in the climate system. Changes in the climate system sometimes are unpredictable
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We can’t eliminate entirely extreme weather off our Earth’s surface, but we can reduce activities that affect the nature to decrease the rate of extreme weather happening in the world