Environmental Regulation

Running head: Environmental regulation
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Introduction
Environmental regulation involves managing pollution and taking care of the natural resources. These laws help to conserve the environment and ensure it remains clean despite its exploitation. It has become a major concern in many countries worldwide. The quality of the environment contributes to the quality status the citizens since it directly affects the wellbeing of persons in a nation and can also be a contributing factor to people visiting an area due to its cleanliness. Areas that are affected by environmental exploitation include issues such as pollution, agriculture, energy, change in climatic patterns and biodiversity. This has raised lot of concern on environmental issues related to them.Infact much is being discussed these days concerning environmental issues worldwide and this can be confirmed from the newspapers which is addressing many of these concerns and how they can be regulated Climate change has been one of the issues discussed currently by many because its effects are universal. Due to over exploitation of resources worldwide, the climatic patterns have drastically changed and its effects experienced worldwide. Human activities are changing day in day out and this has resulted to a larger extent in climate change.
This paper will address issues related to climate change. The industrial revolution has resulted in an uprising number of industries worldwide. These industries use energy from fossil fuel. This has increased the amount of carbon emitted to the atmosphere. Therefore being a major cause of global warming its reduction in the atmosphere is of paramount importance. The papers will therefore define climate change, its causes, its effects and ways of controlling it worldwide.
Climate change
Climate change is a worldwide issue and its one of the issues bringing a lot of disagreement. Climate change can be defined as the variation in the existing conditions of the environment on all earthly and spatial scale past that of individual weather activities. Global climate change shows a variation in either the standard conditions of the climate or in its inconsistency, continuing for many years. Global climate change results in variation in mean weather conditions including a change in mean temperature worldwide and also variation in the way places will receive intense weather conditions, lack of rain, heat waves and torrents. This variation in individual weather conditions will eventually result in variation in climate change. Change in climate does not always mean increase in temperature. It involves places experiencing intense and inconsistent weather conditions from the way it had been experiencing. This means such places will receive high rainfall at certain times, more snowfall, typhoons, longer dry periods and more frequent rainstorms These changes are being experienced in most parts of the world During the ice ages, some places used to be very cold as compared to this time. This has been attributed by global warming according to many scientists. Global warming is said to result from increased use of fossil fuel. In the past climate change was linked to places getting hotter or getting colder, but currently climate changed is linked to more erratic changes, that is some regions will be extremely warm, others will be very cold, while others will be very dry and others will be very wet.
Cause of Climate Change
The climate in the world is changing every now and then. This has to a larger degree been attributed to by human activities. Research is being conducted worldwide to ascertain its evidence from the rings of trees, samples from pollen, ice hub, the globe`s inclination and some galaxies such as meteorites. There are so far two causes of climate change-those resulting from natural causes and those resulting from human activities.
Natural causes of climate change include ocean currents, the earth`s tilt, meteors and meteorites and continental drift. Climatic conditions are affected by ocean currents since ocean forms a major part of the climate system. The oceans cover about 71% of the earth`s surface and is said to double intake of the sun`s energy as compared to the earths surface or the atmosphere. Ocean currents often change direction of movement. Heat loss from the ocean is in form of water vapor, which is considered to be the most prevalent greenhouse gas on earth. The same vapor is used in the formation of clouds., which blocks the sun`s heat energy from reaching the earth`s surface hence cooling it. All these affects climate. The changes in the earth’s inclination affects the occurrence of the seasons, that is inclination means warmer summers and colder winters, less inclination results in cooler summers and less colder winters. Therefore the drastic change in the earth`s direction results in climate change. The gases emitted by volcanic activities together with the dust and ashes also contribute to climate change.Sulphur dioxide, a gas produced during eruption combines with rain water in the atmosphere to form sulphuric acid. The acid remains on the surface for so long in form of fine droplets. These droplets often reflect sun`s radiation since they occur on the ground as screens. ...