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Climate change is reality... few eye opening facts -by- Naseem Sheikh

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Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, weather events are becoming more extreme and greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest levels in history. Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is likely to surpass 3 degrees centigrade this century. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most. The  Intergovernmental  Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an  intergovernmental  body of the United Nations, dedicated to providing the world with an objective, scientific view of climate change and its political and economic impacts. It  is an...

Climate of Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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The climate of a region or country is known through the typical weather over a protracted amount of time. If a vicinity has a lot of dry days throughout the year than wet days, it'd be delineate as a dry climate; an area that has additional cold days than hot days would build it far-famed to own a chilly climate. Pakistan has four seasons: a cool, dry winter from December through February; a hot, dry spring from March through May; the summer season, or southwest monsoon amount, from June through September; and also the withdrawing monsoon amount of October and November. The weather extremes in Islamic Republic of Pakistan embody high and low temperatures, heaviest precipitation and flooding. the best temperature ever recorded in Islamic Republic of Pakistan is fifty three.5 °C(128.3 °F) that was recorded in Mohenjo-daro, Sindh on twenty six might 2010. Disaster state global climate change is probably going to increase climate-related natural disasters with the ...

Carbon dioxide: Main culprit of global warming like Methane

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IS CO2 main culprit of global warming or not? Recently this is very debatable topic, one group says CO2 is a normal gas like hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen and not a reason of recent global warming but there is group of believers that admit CO2 as culpable and I am believer of second group. To satisfies them I have a small logical reason as in our surrounding we have a large number of nutrients but not all of equal importance, few are micro and other are macro similarly their ratio in our diet matters a lot. If one exceed its normal limit cause in ill factor of body functioning. Similarly CO2 is main culprit for causing global warming due to presence of carbon which is main building block of nature and nature believes on balance of every thing. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a slightly toxic, odourless, colourless gas with a slightly pungent, acid taste. it is currently occurring at an average concentration of about 390 parts per million by volume or 591 parts per millio...